[Dragaera] Verra and the Paths of the Dead

[Mark A. Mandel]

(approximate quotation from memory)
"Natural? Bah! Nothing having to do with our goddess is natural."
Morrolan to Arra, after the appearance of the tower room with one window (for Morrolan, but a varying and undeterminable number for anyone else)

-- Mark


----- Original Message ----
From: Scott Schultz <scott at cjhunter.com>
To: dragaera at lists.dragaera.info
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 11:19:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Dragaera] Verra and the Paths of the Dead


>We knowof (but have not seen ) one time when Verra was not doing her
>job. She concived a child with Adron.
>I doubt that was work. Unless she was planning to have her child die &
>be resurrected for some cosmic cause.
>No reasonable god would use their own child like that.

It seems clear to me that when you're talking about the motivations of
 the 
Lords of Judgement that "reasonable" is a word that simply doesn't
 apply. 
You can't really expect to apply human understanding to the gods.

Concerning Verra specifically, keep in mind a couple of things. She's
 been 
described, essentially, as the goddess of perversity. She's the
 embodiment 
of mischief, chaos, capriciousness; the random arbritrariness of life,
 as 
Teldra puts it. This is why Teldra advises Vlad not to put his entire
 faith 
in her. It's her nature to be, for lack of a better word, flighty and 
unpredictable.

It also seems, given Sethra's narrative about the vial of blood, that
 Verra 
is not so much prescient as pre-intuitive. She might have had a child
 with 
Adron because of a nagging feeling that it was a good idea, without 
neccesarily forseeing any of the events that lay ahead in the life of
 that 
child.






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