[Dragaera] Jhereg genetics

[John Dallman]

In article 
<b605c0e31002010902r4e99fa8blbbbaefcbae367c2f at mail.gmail.com>, 
fistoftyr at gmail.com (Miguel Aja) wrote:

> 2010/2/1 Ken Koester <kkoester at email.ers.usda.gov> wrote: 
> > Well. . . he's not Raven, after all (-:

No, although they have a certain amount in common. Raven eventually grew 
too old and failed to adapt to circumstances; I don't think that will 
happen with Vlad. In a world where so many outlive him, he seems to 
understand that youthful flexibility, at least of mind, is one of his 
assets. 

> I wonder what steps you would have to go through to fake your dead in 
> a world with magic, resurrection and necromancy... certainly you will 
> have to do *something* to prevent the Jhereg hiring some specialist to 
> double-check your soul is either passed on or gone.

Do we know enough about what happens to Easterner's souls to know how 
possible that is? Getting Verra to claim she had his soul safe in her 
keeping - without explicitly confirming that he was dead - might do. 

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