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

[Alexx Kay]

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> Let me put it this way - what's the Vlad-gets-a-dull-shine scenario
> supposed to look like?  Sethra and Co. meekly accept it and don't take out
> the Jhereg council and everyone with any connection to it?

Actually, that *is* more-or-less what I would expect.  Vlad created this
situation himself, with forethought.  "If there were any justice, I'd be
dead."

Sethra and Vlad both know that the Jhereg *have* to act in the way they
are acting.  This is made clear as far back as _Jhereg_ -- the Council is
willing to absorb any amount of incidental losses, but cannot allow
themselves to ever lose *respect*.  Vlad made them lose face.  If they
don't kill him for it, Morganti, everyone else gets a little more uppity,
and the structure of the House eventually falls apart.  (I don't
necessarily agree with this principle, but it is clear the the Council,
and Vlad himself, *do*.)

What's the upside to massacring the Jhereg Council?  You'd probably
trigger something very like one of the Dragon/Jhereg wars.  Would there be
any positive sides to the outcome?  They're not trying to kill Vlad
because they're evil, but in self-defense (as they see it).  They would
eventually be replaced by a new Council that was not, in its essentials,
any different.

Moreover, given the Council's willingness (in _Jhereg_) to provoke a new
D/J war to avoid losing face over the Mellar incident, it's not clear that
threatening to kill them all would actually be a deterrent.

Alexx

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