[Dragaera] _Iorich_ random brief comments (spoilers!)

Damien Sullivan phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu
Sat Feb 6 09:29:27 PST 2010


On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 07:10:55AM -0700, Howard Brazee wrote:
> On Feb 5, 2010, at 10:31 PM, Damien Sullivan wrote:
> 
> > Replacement leaders: they could continue trying to kill Vlad, and have a
> > 99% chance of getting killed in turn, or make peace and live.  Do they
> > really care about the "good of the Organization" against a nearly
> > certain chance of being killed and maybe having their soul destroyed?
> > Since when are Jhereg that self-sacrificing?  Ok, maybe since they're
> > basically criminal Dragons, per my genetics post, but otherwise...
> 
> Why should they risk themselves?    Politicians don't fight wars, they
> send others to do the fighting.

Umm, I didn't suggest otherwise.  "trying to kill Vlad" means "sending
assassins to kill Vlad".  But that doesn't help if Vlad could bring the
'war' directly to them.

-xx- Damien X-) 



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