(urth) Why did Vodalus risk...?

[Jeff Wilson]

aaron wrote:
> I have a question for you guys, and hopefully you can offer me some 
> insight here.  I am on my umpteenth reread of TSotT, and I only just 
> realized what a great risk Vodalus takes when he, Hildegrin, and Thea 
> rob the grave in the necropolis.  My next thought was: Why would he take 
> such a risk?

My thought is that the body is that of a particularly loyal, devoted 
follower, and he is there personally to secure it for use in further 
binding and perhaps even converting people to his side with the alzabo 
drug. A sufficiently powerful inherited personality may even turn a spy 
or double agent among the rebels to true allegiance.

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