Carrying the Antidote: Difference between revisions

*** Killing her and taking the Book wouldn't work; it has to be freely given. Butler was asking why they didn't kill her ''after''.

* Subverted in the ''[[War Of The Spider Queen]]'' series, where not only does Quenthel have no antidote to the poison she administers to a traitorous student, it is not even a poison per se, but rather an alarming-but-non-life-threatening overdose of alertness potion.

** In ''[[Mort]]'', the Agatean [[Evil Chancellor|Grand Vizier]] comes to regret not doing this when he ends up eating his own poison, and the emperor refuses to allow him to leave the table, go back to his quarters, and retrieve the small black vial in the hidden compartment with "antidote" written on it.

* Subverted in the [[The Riftwar Cycle|Riftwar]] book ''Servant of the Empire'': an assassin takes the antidote before drinking poisoned tea along with his victim, but it turns out to not be the antidote. The subversion kicks in when it's pointed out by the victim's spymaster searching for a cure that the antidote ''bottle'' was convincing enough to be genuine, so all they have to do is find the apothecary who made it, as he can clearly make the antidote or he wouldn't have an officially-stamped bottle for it in the first place.