"Divya" <divyasatyam at satyam.net.in> writes: > I agree. He was very young and relatively naive/inexperienced during _Five > Hundred Years After_, and was already a Jhereg. It's unlikely he'd already > been kicked out of the House of the Dragon at that point. And its even more > unlikely that he somehow was admitted later, during or just after the > interregnum, and then kicked out. A further point against their being the > same person: Aliera liked Mario, and she has shown she despises Kragar. I don't like the "Kragar is Mario" theory, *but* I think it's quite likely that Aliera's attitude would have changed at the same time and for the same reason that Kragar was kicked out of the House of the Dragon. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info