Dragaera

Kragar

Dennis Higbee den at monger.net
Tue Jul 9 14:21:16 PDT 2002

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Jose Marquez wrote:

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> Thomas Yan wrote:
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> > I flipped through both and didn't see anything about his age.  The
> > reason I ask is that I wonder if (his age makes it possible) we'll see
> > him or the Demon in _Paths of the Dead_.
> 
> I remember that the Demon was supposed to be extremely young, and that he
> methodically worked (and 'worked') his way up the Organization during the
> Interregnum, pulling together a broken House. I'm a thousand miles away from

The Demon was, according to Vlad (and we know how trustworthy *he* is), 
under 800, which is young, I guess, though not as young as Morrolan.

> my books right now, though, so I can't check that. As for Kragar, I don't
> think he's so young that he missed the Interregnum. I don't know when young
> Dragons get their first command, but I'd assume that he got more than one
> chance to prove himself, before leaving (or being kicked out), so he can't be
> *that* young, in my opinion.

I've got to think Kragar is close to a thousand.  I have no reason, other 
than that he had a failed career as a Dragon and, as you said, he probably 
took a while to get himself drummed out of the House.  Add on to that a 
career in the Jhereg (which I suppose could have been as meteoric as 
Vlad's, though I find it unlikely), and you've got a pretty long time to 
have lived.  Of course, this is assuming that anything said in the books 
about Kragar's past is true, but you've got to start somewhere.

-Dennis