Chris remarked: > Hmmm..how do I say this? It doesn't matter. For the foreseeable future, she isn't going to be a part of the series in any significant way. But if I had to place my bets, I'd say he was neither a demon or a god. The East is full of things that haven't been written about. Her father could have been some unknown Eastern thing. > I dunno, Chris. The way things were left after Issola . . . s p o i l e r s p a c e With Vlad and Lady Teldra going back to Adrilankha, I wouldn't be at all surprised to run into Cawti any time now. She'll be around, I bet, at some point--she's still the mother of Vlad's son. And, she does have *something* nonhuman in her ancestry--I'd be disappointed if nothing is ever made of that. Mia