[Dragaera] Iorich ***SPOILERS****

[Jon%20Lincicum]

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On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Jon%20Lincicum wrote: 

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> From: "Philip Hart" <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> 
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> On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Alexx Kay wrote: 
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>>>> Jhereg are still going to want his soul destroyed. He needs to either 
>>>> make peace with, or destroy, the *entire* "Organization" -- or die, of 
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>> The problem is, the Jhereg currently see both of these as essentially 
>> the same thing. Vlad, in dying, will provide the object lesson that will 
>> prevent other upstart criminals from thumbing their nose at the 
>> Organization, and cause it, eventually, to fall apart. 
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>But he is no longer a good object lesson. The council can say, alright, 
>we've spent enough money and blood making this guy's life miserable to 
>prove that anyone without the resources to survive us - skills in 
>witchcraft and evading sorcery, close friends in the highest places, 
>first-name basis with gods, a GW - should not. 

All of which makes it a *more effective* object lesson. If someone with all those advantages can still get shined for crossing the Jhereg, why would anyone else ever dare to? 

> It's become 
>counterproductive to the council to attack Vlad. They've earned a great 
>deal of enmity from Aliera and the other Dragons which will not fade. 
>They've used a high noble as bait. They're likely to get themselves 
>slaughtered to prove a point far past any sensible applicability. 

They are certainly incurring collateral damage in their pursuit of Vlad. Of course, they were willing to accept much worse in their pursuit of Mellar. 


>There's still the Left Hand, of course. 

The Left Hand could very well prove to be enough of a threat to the Right that in destroying them, Vlad could earn a reprieve from the Council. 

In order for that to work, however, the threat would have to be both grave, and immediate. 

Majikjon