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

[Howard Brazee]

On Jul 14, 2008, at 12:11 PM, Scott Schultz wrote:

>> The easiest explanation I can come up with is that Vlad's pumping  
>> his ego a bit with the comment in Teckla.
>> Any other thoughts?
>
> I think that's pretty simply explained in _Jhegaala_. Vlad spends a  
> reasonable amount of time comparing night in the East to night in  
> the Empire, with the observation that it's darker in the East due to  
> an ambient light cast by the Enshrouding. What he thinks of as  
> "night vision" in the earlier book turns out to be somewhat  
> inadequate when faced with the real darkness in the East.
>
> Actually, I'd say that's pretty impressive that Steve caught that  
> and came up with a suitable explanation.

Except that it was Dragaerans who knew about his poor night vision and  
passed the knowledge on.    So he didn't discover it on this trip.