In a message dated 7/25/02, T J writes: >I have been thinking about that, and i have recently come to >my own conclusion that the necromancer is The painting >baroness from TPG. In jhereg Vlad tells us the necromancer >is a painter and that she painted the picture of the dieing >dragon hanging in morrolan's castle, also he explains that >Katana E'M'archala painted the ceiling of Castle Black. I am >guessing from the extra apostrophe in the last name that it >is a shortening of her full last name, like G'aerth. The line is e'Marish'Chala. The line's originator was, in full, Marishori Cvorunn Chalionara. (TPG, 125-126) >And we all know the baroness painted a picture of a dieing >dragon that belonged to Lord Rollandar e'Drien, if memory >serves e'Drien is the line fo which Morrolan is a member, so >he could have inherited it some way. I'm trying to wait for the readalong list, so I haven't read FYA recently, but I think Kathana's painting was in the palace at the time of Adron's Disaster, which would make it gone, gone, gone. >so i propose that the necromancer is indeed the baroness and >perhaps few people (only sethra since she and the baroness >were apparently friends in TPG) know who the necromancer >truly is. Did I ever tell anyone about the theory I had after FYA, that Tazendra would become Sethra the Younger? I gave it up after a while, but still wish I'd been able to make it work. Rae