[Dragaera] Here Be a Jhegaala Spoiler

[Jon Lincicum]

Philip Hart wrote:
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> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Maximilian Wilson wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Philip Hart 
>> <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
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>> P.S. Even if invisibility were uncommon, wouldn't we have expected
>> Kiera to use it when breaking into the Palace? Rather than waiting
>> until the guard's back was turned? Wouldn't people be less surprised
>> to discover they'd accidentally included Kragar in a conversation, or
>> teleported him with a group?
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> Yes, I've been wondering why the spell was never noted in the Kragar 
> context in earlier Texts.  Though what he has is actually richer than 
> invisibility in some ways, I think.  Which ought to have been
> a subject of comment by Vlad.
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> OTOH it's not actually at all important to the events in _Jhegaala_
> that invisibility be possible.

My take: There is no spell for invisibility. Vlad is flat-out lying to 
the count and his men, because he wants to see the Jhereg assassin 
covered in Nesiffa powder, which no doubt has some annoying quality 
(itch-powder, for example) and this is Vlad's way of making the 
assassin's life miserable. It's such a petty prank, tho, that the Count 
and his men wouldn't have bothered with it unless Vlad had given them a 
compelling reason.

Majikjon