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- From: st1da@rosie.uh.edu (Jeff Phillips)
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- Subject: Re: Lifespan
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 18:36 CST
- Organization: University of Houston
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- >I'm glad someone brought Vella up. She isn't a sorceress, so I assumed
- >that Beldin changed her form. But she should have a normal lifespan,
- >no? So he would be lonely again. Unless 1) purple hawks live a long
- >time, like the wolves of that world, or 2) Vella had some latent ability,
- >which a powerful sorceror like Beldin could bring out. I thought that
- >scene could have used a bit of clarification, since I though it fortold
- >a miserably tragic ending for Beldin with Vella's eventual death, but
- >everyone treated itlike the happiest event in the world! Anyone else
- >wonderabout it?
- >
- >CKC
- >
- >
- You are all forgetting something. When Polgara changed Salmissra into the
- snake, she also made her immortal. I beleive that Beldin could also do the
- same. So, when he changed Vella's form, he also made her immortal. I am sure
- that with some training and instruction, Garion could accomplish this with
- Ce'Nedra if he so desired, like make her young again when she got old and at
- the same time, make her immortal. One need not have the ability to do
- sorcery to become immortal. So, the event is not so sad as you perceive.
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- These, of course, are just my thoughts.
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- Jeff Phillips
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