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

[Ken Koester]

Howard Brazee wrote:

> 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?

They seem that way to the participants.  Who knows how it seems to the 
gods themselves?

Snarkhunter