[Dragaera] Orca Reconsideration 1

[Howard Brazee]

On 2/10/2010 3:28 PM, Sean Whalen wrote:
>    Being able to exist in more than one place at once does not imply
> possessing multiple bodies (it seems the evidence shows that they
> can exist in more than three dimensions, including time, levels of
> existence, etc.).  Even if they had more bodies, they all look the same
> (so far as we've seen; Verra, the other gods).  Sethra has never been
> in the same place as Kiera, which would have been useful in_Jhereg_
> (and, conventiently, no one ever tried to get into psychic contact with
> Sethra when Kiera was involved in their planning session to try to get
> her help (which would have been useful, since Aliera couldn't use the
> magic they wanted after she was dead)), implying there's only one body.
>
>    So far, I've seen no ev. either that Sethra is able to exist in more than
> one place at once or possesses multiple bodies.
>    
We don't know all of the rules for Sethra's magic.   Sethra might not 
want people to know either.    It is easy to come up with alternative 
scenarios - for instance, Sethra can go out with a 2nd body only if her 
first body is at home in a trance.