Cougar, on Jan 8 2009, 09:41 PM, said:
In Trakes thought's in I guess MoI, I can not be arsed looking it up, he ponders that Ryllandaras may have been the only one to master both D'ivers and Soletaken forms and this is the explanation given. It's a poorly thought out story line and there are loads of holes, ICE should have just made him a different character with a different name it would have been a lot simpler and it adds nothing to the story that it's got the same name.
The Ryllanderas and Ho stories gave two examples of how D'ivers could be broken up, with different results. If just one example had been included, it would have looked like a one-off, but two examples in one book show that D'ivers can be divided; which is at least a bit more than we knew before.
Also, Ho didn't appear to have been part of the group ritual mentioned in DG, but used 'ancient knowledge' to divide himself.
I'd say Ryllanderas (in Heng) acted like Trake in the way that he stayed in his animal form for so long that he became part beast, as he was revelling in the power. In that way, he's not necessarily insane, but is driven by less than human motives. Capturing him and locking him up for years just made him mad.
It looks like from Ho and Ryllanderas that soletaken/D'ivers are as sane as they want to be - if they deny their power, and use it carefully, they stay relatively sane, but if they give in to it they risk losing their humanity. Bit like ...Gruntle's buddy in MOI who turned into a sparrowhawk, and was so griefstricken about the death of his family that you got the impression he was never going to change back.
This post has been edited by Traveller: 09 January 2009 - 08:13 AM
So that's the story. And what was the real lesson? Don't leave things in the fridge.