[Dragaera] Ten New Questions after Dzur. [Dzur Spoilers]

[Diana]

Certainly all of that is true--hence the "(natural) lifespan."

But personally, one of the nice things about Vlad is his human
lifespan, and his abilities to learn, change, and adapt quickly. You
can't afford 200-year funks when you only live to be 70. I simply
don't want to consider that Vlad may live to see the next Dragon
reign, because it would make him less Vlad, even for a character who's
already undergone some fairly drastic changes.

Of course, if the Jenoine can muck about with time as easily as they
do other dimensions, there's no reason why he couldn't be popped into
the future without an extended lifespan.

However, until any of that starts happening in the books, I think it's
fairly safe to say that, no matter what actions Vlad takes or does not
take in his normal lifespan/original timeline, the cycle is still
outwardly functioning long after the "present" of the series, so he
won't do anything to drastically muck it up anytime "soon."

...So, to sum up: I agree with what you said, but that doesn't negate
what I said. :)

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Alain Feeny <sauronth at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
> On 18-Mar-08, at 3:20 PM, Diana wrote:
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> >> What if at some point there are no more of them? Would that remove
> >> the
> >> justification for the gods and/or the Cycle?
> >
> > It's possible, but we do have evidence that the Cycle continues
> > uninterrupted long after Vlad's (natural) lifespan would run out, what
> > with the publication dates of Paarfi's later works. Which, of course,
> > doesn't mean that there can't have been some sort of fundamental
> > altering of things, just that it continues to function normally on the
> > surface. (I have no idea how to work the tenses there.)
>
> Given previous evidence of Powerful witches/warlocks of Easterner
> stock living beyond the normal lifespan of the species, coupled with
> Vlad's sorcerous knowledge and witchcraft, not to mention a Great
> Weapon, it is no great leap of assumption that (untimely death not
> withstanding) Vlad has the means to live quite a long time...  All
> this to say, that the dates published by Paarfi are no guarantee that
> Vlad's story is concluded by that point.
>
>
>