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**In the first chapter of ''Lyorn'', Vlad is is watching a group of actors rehearsing for a play; the specific scene is for a song, which includes a reference to "that silly book 'The Phoenix Guards'". Maybe evidence it already exists, at least as a rough draft/first edition?
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*** Two points: First, it would appear that you only have to cut someone with a Morganti blade to destroy their soul, even if the cut wouldn't normally be lethal. That alone makes them incredibly valuable. Second, damaging the body sufficiently to preven revivification is not always easy to do in the middle of a fight or in the chaos of a plan going wrong. But again, all you have to do is cut someone with a Morganti blade and they are down for good.
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** The 'problem', to me is more this: when Alera tells him he's a reincarnation, he primarily gets a sense of his first life ''only'', but not of any of the "others". Presumably, the Doyalist reason is Brust hadn't really though at the time of Vlad having (so many) other reincarnations, but...
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** The 'problem', to me is more this: when Alera Aliera tells him he's a reincarnation, he primarily gets a sense of his first life ''only'', but not of any of the "others". Presumably, the Doyalist reason is Brust hadn't really though at the time of Vlad having (so many) other reincarnations, but...
** Vlad ''does'' have that momentary pre-WhamLine flash of awareness that Aliera's incarnations are '''always''' just a bit faster than his, though. Which implies they've had ''that exact conversation'' in plenty of lives before, with outcomes so similar that he ''can't help'' but recall it, even if he can't consciously dredge up any details of those past incarnations besides that fact.
** Vlad ''does'' have that momentary pre-WhamLine flash of awareness that Aliera's incarnations are '''always''' just a bit faster than his, though. Which implies they've had ''that exact conversation'' in plenty of lives before, with outcomes so similar that he ''can't help'' but recall it, even if he can't consciously dredge up any details of those past incarnations besides that fact.
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* Ok; ''Vallista''. Vlad finds out more about [[spoiler:his previous lives]]. The fact that he had ''any'' was already brought up in earlier books, so not a surprise. It's just... uh, how many he's had. (I didn't count the "flashbacks", but it was 5+, and seemed like 10+.) So... Given the empire is, roughly 200-250,000 years old (Vaguely remembered from an early book's discussion of Sethra's age) and various older Dragaerans are mentioned as being 2500-3000+ years old.... How the f*** do you ''comfortably'' [[spoiler:fit 5-10+ reincarnations without them finding out about each other, in a Deja Vu kind of way]]? (Remember, when Vlad was originally told, he ended up completely accepting it in a "Search your feelings, you know it to be true" sort of way, and that was when he was compared to the original founder of House Jhereg.)
** Two ways. First, there's no guarantee that all or even ''most'' of Vlad's prior incarnations survived to die of old age; we know they didn't get Morgantied, because he's still around, but prior to the Interregnum it was almost impossible to resurrect the dead and he's probably gotten himself killed plenty of times. And second, [[spoiler: ''Vallista'' itself reveals that Dragaeran lifespans were ''originally'' as short as regular Easterners', lengthening gradually since Doliver's day. So, Vlad probably lived out his early incarnations at a much faster clip than his recent ones]].
** Two ways. First, there's no guarantee that all or even ''most'' of Vlad's prior incarnations survived to die of old age; we know they didn't get Morgantied, because he's still around, but prior to the Interregnum it was almost impossible to resurrect the dead and he's probably gotten himself killed plenty of times. And second, [[spoiler: ''Vallista'' itself reveals that Dragaeran lifespans were ''originally'' as short as regular Easterners', lengthening gradually since Doliver's day. So, Vlad probably lived out his early incarnations at a much faster clip than his recent ones]].
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* Ok; ''Vallista''. Vlad finds out more about [[spoiler:his his previous lives]].lives. The fact that he had ''any'' was already brought up in earlier books, so not a surprise. It's just... uh, how many he's had. (I didn't count the "flashbacks", but it was 5+, and seemed like 10+.) So... Given the empire is, roughly 200-250,000 years old (Vaguely remembered from an early book's discussion of Sethra's age) and various older Dragaerans are mentioned as being 2500-3000+ years old.... How the f*** do you ''comfortably'' [[spoiler:fit fit 5-10+ reincarnations without them finding out about each other, in a Deja Vu kind of way]]? way? (Remember, when Vlad was originally told, he ended up completely accepting it in a "Search your feelings, you know it to be true" sort of way, and that was when he was compared to the original founder of House Jhereg.)
** Two ways. First, there's no guarantee that all or even ''most'' of Vlad's prior incarnations survived to die of old age; we know they didn't get Morgantied, because he's still around, but prior to the Interregnum it was almost impossible to resurrect the dead and he's probably gotten himself killed plenty of times. And second,[[spoiler: ''Vallista'' itself reveals that Dragaeran lifespans were ''originally'' as short as regular Easterners', lengthening gradually since Doliver's day. So, Vlad probably lived out his early incarnations at a much faster clip than his recent ones]].ones.
** Two ways. First, there's no guarantee that all or even ''most'' of Vlad's prior incarnations survived to die of old age; we know they didn't get Morgantied, because he's still around, but prior to the Interregnum it was almost impossible to resurrect the dead and he's probably gotten himself killed plenty of times. And second,
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