[Dragaera] The Desecrator [spoilers]

[Alexx Kay]

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> ----- "Philip Hart" <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
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>>
>> Perhaps the difference is that the gods or the Cycle or fate declared
>> that Godslayer/Pathfinder would go to soul-siblings Vlad/Aliera, while
>> Telnan just happened to be the most recent Dzur to knock on Sethra's
>> door so he's the one she set up.
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> It's not clear at all to me that Sethra expected Telnan to find a GW.
> Certainly, she sent him to find /something/ unusual, but I think it's a
> stretch to say that we know that she a) knew that a GW in particular was
> the
> "blip" she had detected, or that b) it would bond with Telnan, rather than
> simply destroy him (as it nearly did).
>
> There's the line about sending him "to find something he'd lost"
> (ambiguous
> Sethra phrasing if ever I've seen it), so it's clear she knew that somehow
> it
> was important that Telnan himself go, not some other person (herself,
> Morrolan, Khaavren, etc).
>
> But this reminds me more of how she knew there was something up with
> Spellbreaker, without knowing exactly what it was. Or how Verra knew it
> was important to get a vial of Vlad's blood at one point, without knowing
> why, exactly. Or that Kiera would know it was important to give that Vial
> to Vlad.

See also the prophecy regarding Blackwand in _The Lord of Castle Black_.

Alexx

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