[Dragaera] Vlad's Destiny (Was: Re: Lavode - possible spoilers (Dzur))

[Howard Brazee]

On 3/15/2010 1:58 PM, Scott Schultz wrote:
>> Or she could be simply following her nature.
>>      
> Yes, the whole business of Godhead requiring that one become a kind of
> symbolic incarnation of an idea sort of implies that becoming a God
> necessarily involves a sacrifice of a certain amount of free will.
>
> I'm reminded of the story of the scorpion and the fox. If you don't know it,
> Snopes has a page about it -
> http://www.snopes.com/critters/malice/scorpion.asp
>
> Verra may be simply doing what Verra does because she's unable to do
> anything else.
>    
Yes, I was thinking of that story when I phrased my statement.   Don't 
gods seem to be limited by their natures more so than people in most 
literature?