Dragaera

Tiassa or Lyorn

Fri Aug 23 19:48:32 PDT 2002

On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 10:17:54PM -0400, Jose Marquez <jhereg69 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> This has been bugging me for some time now. In one of the Vlad books,
> Vlad refers to Daro, Countess of Whitecrest, as a Lyorn, whereas Paarfi
> in 500YA explicitly states that, while she might wear Lyorn colors, she
> is in fact a Tiassa. I'm inclined to side with Paarfi on this one, but
> I'm not sure why Vlad would think she's a Lyorn, other than coming to
> that conclusion after having seen her in her Lyorn colors. Anyone have
> any ideas?

As I believe Brust has said before, sometimes Vlad is a moron.

(He misses the Sorceress In Green's House in Yendi, for example;
while she is a Yendi, which explains part of it, he holds to his
conviction no matter how his friends try to contradict him.  I'm
sure there are other examples, too.)

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