[Dragaera] Dzur/Jhereg crack? [Some minor Dzur spoilers]

[Jot Powers]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 09:57:30AM -0500, Bryan Newell wrote:
> > Jhereg (pg 53 of my copy) 
> > 
> > "[...] In eight years he's [Mellar] got a territory bigger 
> > than you have now.  A year after that, he wipes out Terion 
> > and takes his place on the council."
> > 
> > So, unless we have a different Terion who is high up in the 
> > Jhereg Council, or some other strange hand waving 
> > coincidence, it looks to be a crack to me, since Mellar 
> > killed him a few years earlier.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> Maybe "wipes out" didn't include killing him (just taking his territory,
> rackets, etc.), and then later with Mellar out of the way, Terion resumed
> his former position?

I categorize this under "handwaving".  :)  I think the term "wipes out"
would pretty typically mean "finalizes" in standard Jhereg language.

-Jot
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