[Dragaera] Rynend and Dathaani (spoilers for Tiassa, of course)
Jerry Friedman
jerry_friedman at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 24 12:50:58 PDT 2011
> From: Maximilian Wilson <wilson.max at gmail.com>
> To: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Jerry Friedman
> <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > How can Rynend and Dathaani hope to get away with this? If Dathaani's plan
> > succeeds, some representative of the Empire will meet Vlad at the same time
>as
> > the Jhereg muscle, who will kill him Morganti. (Vlad might certainly get to
>the
> > meeting at the appointed time instead of waiting around to be shined
> > beforehand.) A Jhereg witness will be there too. The Empire will find out
> > there was no Jenoine threat and no reason to believe the silver tiassa
would
> > have protected them. And the Jhereg don't think anyone will put two,
three,
> > five, and seven together? Or Dathaani thinks that with the Empire very
>angry,
> > Rynend can protect him?
>
> I don't think the Jhereg were actually expecting a representative of
> the Empire to appear instantly--
I can't imagine why not. It's a crisis.
As Dathaani sees it, what should the Empress do? She should waste no time, but
send some representative who Vlad will trust. Morrolan and Aliera are the
obvious choices. If they're too in disgrace, as Louis Eastman speculated, then
she would send some other Good Guy. The conversation she wants is, "Vlad, the
Jenoine are about to break through and we think your silver tiassa might stop
them." "Since it's you who's telling me, okay, here it is."
Someone Vlad will trust might very well realize that since his location is
known, including to the Jhereg witness, he might need a little protection or
help getting away, which that person could arrange quickly and easily. Or Vlad
might realize it when the person shows up.
> that was all Cawti and Norathar's
> idea. Presumably they would have showed up and killed Vlad, and then
> found some way to give the silver tiassa to the Empress (planted on
> Vlad's dead body?). When no Jenoine show up, there's nothing for the
> Empire to be upset about except the murder of a fugitive Imperial
> Count, which isn't as big of a deal as you might think, especially
> without witnesses.
The Empire always investigates the killing of someone with an Imperial Title.
Maybe not always very carefully, but we know and the Jhereg know Vlad is
amazingly well-connected and has saved the Empire twice. (True, one time he was
the one that started the trouble, but no one else knows that.)
Also, Sethra or Kosadr or whoever's supposed to use the silver tiassa may well
recognize that it doesn't do anything about the Jenoine. If Vlad is killed
because the Empress thought his silver tiassa had a use that it didn't have,
that might be a logical place to start the investigation.
For some reason, when the Jhereg plot to kill Vlad, they don't worry about
Morrolan, Aliera, et al. (as far as I can remember). I'd think Vlad's friends
should be at the top of an assassin's list of worries.
Jerry Friedman
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