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

[Philip Hart]

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

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> From: "Philip Hart" <philiph at slac.stanford.edu>
> To: "SKZB List" <dragaera at dragaera.info>
> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 1:08:42 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: Re: [Dragaera] Iorich ***SPOILERS****
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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.

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.  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.

There's still the Left Hand, of course.