Smokehammer wrote:It is and it isnt irrelevant. IF its true that Ash is indeed a Dark Elf, then her age explains why she can casually manipulate people into "feeling" her presence AS a drow making her the single most badass Empath in all of creation. The converse is of course that she really is a Drow, and that she could only manipulate Quain into thinking otherwise and that's why she weak, stabbed and laying on the floor. That later would make that illusion irrelevant, but the former leaves room for this whole "fight" being BS(Ash created or otherwise).
Quain'tana was 800 something years old and basically invulnerable to mana arts. So Ash'waren manipulating her sight too, is a problem. Ash'waren would either have to be the greatest drow empath ever, or an incredibly old dark elf. In order to over come Quain'tana's immunity aura. Then we have to ask why Ash'waren would make Quain'tana think she is a dark elf. Drow dont treat dark elves well. So it would be a gambit into making Quain'tana think Ash'waren was older and stronger than she really was. In order to secure the mercenary queen's allegiance.
Ash'waren being a drow. Conflicts with Diva's memory from being a child on the surface.