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Re: It probably has to be a direct betrayal BlackAdder Send a noteboard - 19/11/2009 06:41:03 PM
The unswearing was basically just an indirect preparation for the possible later betrayal, not already a betrayal itself. The same applies to Verin gathering info on the BA, DF and Forsaken with the intention to possibly betray it to the Lightside some time in the future. The BA Oath just forbids a direct betrayal, IMO.


Verin was gathering all those names, but from the start, even before she took the Dark Oath, she was focused on betraying them. However, she did not mean to do so until her last hour. So, all of the information she gathered, she did so knowing full well that she would leak it to the Lightsiders... in her final hour.

It was a direct betrayal to make those notes knowing that she would leak them, but it followed the rules, as it were.

However, I cannot see how unswearing the Dark Oath is not a direct betrayal, knowing what the BA Hunters plan to ask, and probably what they would seek to gain from further interrogation (other BA identities, plots, etc.)
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