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

[Alexx Kay]

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> From: "Philip Hart" <philiph at slac.stanford.edu>
> To: "SKZB List" <dragaera at dragaera.info>
> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 3:40:15 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: Re: [Dragaera] Iorich ***SPOILERS****
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>>And on the Mellar time-scale - a few days causes the real damage - isn't
>>it too late?
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> Well, the idea of the Mellar situation was they needed (or at least
> preferred) that he be dead before the crime was even discovered. The Demon
> may well have overstated the importance of this deadline to Vlad in order
> to avoid the naturally undesirable consequences of starting another
> Dragon-Jhereg war.
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> Since Vlad's crimes were public almost immediately, the same sort of time
> pressures do not seem to apply. Some damage has already been done to the
> House's reputation due to his survival thus far, but they can still
> mitigate some of the damage by killing him now.

I posit the following: as long as Vlad is visibly fleeing for his life
from a Morganti death sentence, the Council can plausibly say "That's not
exactly 'getting away with' anything, is it?"  The previous time he came
back to Adrilankha was only for a few weeks, and he was in disguise for
most of that time.

Of course, by the end of _Iorich_, he's been in town for over a month, has
*not* been in disguise, and has been publically seen hanging out at Court
and staying in a fancy hotel.  If my theory about the Council's attitude
is correct, they have to be *really* steaming, and amping up their
resources against Vlad.

Alexx

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