The Grounding of MR`s Bloodline

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At 02:26 PM 7/13/2009, irdeggman wrote:

But the Iron Throne told the story of how Michael Roele died in a one-on-one fight with the Gorgon (his "uncle"). Michael sent his bloodline directly into the land instead of allowing the Gorgon to "steal it".

Interesting to speculate on the similarities between the Gorgon`s and MR`s bloodlines.... The Gorgon received his bloodline directly at the BoD, but MR must have had his handed down to him through the generations after it originated from Anduiras. I mention it because there has been some speculation about things like why the Gorgon doesn`t spend his immortal years having children and then committing bloodtheft on them, and various solutions have been presented to this problem with various levels of success. MR`s bloodline and the Gorgon`s would seem to be very different, which would preclude some of the "solutions" to the bloodtheft problem, but I can`t help but wonder if their familial relationship might not have played some sort of role in the grounding of the emperor`s bloodline rather than having the Gorgon steal it....

At least, something like that might be used in part to explain what happened in that battle, and how/why MR was able to "ground" his bloodline rather than the Gorgon receiving it. Maybe MR had nothing really to do with it at all - it was simply a bizarre result of a unique confluence of magical effects.

I suppose there could be other explanations and influences:

1. The strength of the bloodlines involved, for example. At this point, we don`t know if the Gorgon can really even gain much of any benefit to his 100+ bloodline score by committing bloodtheft.

2. The weapons used by the Gorgon might have had an influence.

3. MR might have had some sort of special relationship with the land that we know little or nothing about.

4. There could have been some sort of divine intervention.

5. The Gorgon might have done something on purpose that backfired, or that we do not fully know the results of yet.

Others?

Gary