[Dragaera] We must fill the Crack! (Jhegaala Spoiler Alert!)

[Scott Schultz]

>
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Scott Schultz wrote:
>
>>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Scott Schultz <scott at cjhunter.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> reply following spoiler space...
>>>>
>>>>> This is a Jhegaala Spoiler Alert.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is another one.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's a third.
>>>>>
>>>>> Shall I continue for another Seventeen lines?
>>>>>
>>>>> Or have you realized that, if you continue to read,
>>>>>
>>>>> Yet you've not yet read Jhegaala,
>>>>>
>>>>> Anything I write can and will spoil
>>>>>
>>>>> Your enjoyment of the above-mentioned book.
>>>>>
>>>>> And you really don't want to do that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you?
>>>>>
>>>>> I thought not.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is the End of the Spoiler Alert
> Does Vlad really go around discussing his weaknesses with anyone besides
> a certain box?

Unlikely. I'd file it under "habits that get noticed". The sort of habits, 
in fact, that Vlad himself often relied upon finding out about when planning 
how to take down a target.

>> Vlad's claim to "good night vision" is a result of pride and his 
>> depending on something that to him is no different than depending on 
>> having the proper knife in his boot. He doesn't think of it as something 
>> separate from himself.
>
> I don't follow this.

Keeping in mind that this is all speculation - He thinks he has good night 
vision because the only time he cares is when he's on the job, and using the 
spell when he's on the job is just using another tool in his arsenal. It's 
not something he thinks about, particularly when the Enclouding emits its 
own soft light and Adrilankha itself is full of streetlights of one sort or 
another. By his lights (if you'll pardon the expression) at the time that he 
bragged about his night vision, he'd never been handicapped to the point of 
realizing just how dependent he was on that spell when the other factors 
were removed.