When Jasak arrested vos Hoven, he thought that vos Hoven couldn't possibly believe he could get around the verifier spells used at trials. So Jasak at least thinks magisters can't get around them. Whether or not that's true for the Mythalan conspiracy, however, is something we certainly don't know yet.
Keith_w wrote:Thorby wrote:<snipped for brevity>
And it raises the question of how mul Gurthak and crew think they're going to get away with their lies, and their responsibility for the third, and most serious, attack on Sharona. Are truth spells rarer than Sifters? Did Skirvon avoid the use of a truth spell because that would have raised suspicions about the other functions of his crystals? Since truth detection depends on magic, can a magistron block or subvert a truth spell? If so, then the Sifter has the advantage.
At this point there is no indication that Gurthak is aware that Sniffers exist, so he probably thinks that his personal ability to lie with a straight face will carry through. I would think that the Arcanans do not have the equivalent of Sniffers, otherwise they would probably be used to detect plots to overthrow the current regime, or at least should be .
Spoiler warning
In the fourth snippet, Toralk wonders if the Sharonians have some sort of Talent that let them see the future and how the Arcanan forces would attack. He thinks that's surely the only way they could have pulled off that machine-gun ambush that killed both yellows. So whatever other Talents they know about, Glimpses aren't among them. They might not even know about Precognition, because it's really easy to get the two mixed up.