Quote Originally Posted by Kish View Post
Assuming that Mic_128 in fact understood those things, and is looking for "what asterisks explanation might the Oracle have offered for Vaarsuvius' death":

Someone pointed out in one of these threads that each explanation is a further stretch than the one before. By the time he got to Vaarsuvius it might have been something like:
ORACLE: Vaarsuvius turned into Darth Vaarsuvius--a name that the human here explicitly gave him. Thus, Vaarsuvius was killed, from a certain point of view.
HALEY: Even if that worked, Belkar had nothing to do with that!
ORACLE: You can't help but influence the people you work with. The halfling himself welcomed her to the deep end of the alignment pool at the time!
Don't forget that one time when the Fiends claimed V's soul and brought it to Hell (because Belkar influenced V). The fact that he came back 20 minutes later doesn't matter because death is a revolving door and Belkar never asked about any of them coming back.