[Dragaera] Seventeen Maybe Different Jhegaala Spoilers

[Scott Schultz]

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> Note that the costs of transport are trivial under the new Orb.

I'm not sure that assumption is warranted until we see an example of trade 
goods being shipped via teleport. As far as  I can remember, goods in the 
Empire still move around the old fashioned way.

> Also I'd expect that adding sorcery to the recipe would solve the
> stink.  Which leads to the question, why does the meatpacking
> district smell in Adrilahnka, but ok.

It may be theoretically possible and yet be impractical. Consider _Dragon_, 
when the rain was falling on the troops. Sethra didn't ask her wizard's 
corps to change the weather. When the rain fell, individuals erected shields 
and eventually let them fail because the alternative was to burn out their 
brains.

Odor, when it's caused by a continuous chemical reaction as opposed to a 
one-shot event (skunk spray, say) may be similar. Removing the odor means 
that someone has to constantly power the spell which means that you have to 
have a bunch of people doing it in shifts to avoid killing themselves. The 
expense is more than the leather/paper/meat/whatever is worth.


> Anyway Vlad is a very
> bizarre trade delegation - is it even an implausible lie?

Apparently not, since the Count doesn't buy it, but it's not all that 
unreasonable on the face of it. Why not send an Easterner to deal with other 
Easterners? The Count knows about the Court and the Empress. He probably 
knows or at least can surmise that occasionally Easterners rise to positions 
of prominence in the Court, depending on how useful they are.