Jose Marquez wrote: > Michelle Goepp wrote: > > ... Has something put him > > off the drink between these books? Am I missing > > something, or is something missing? > I don't remember Vlad saying that he doesn't like brandy; I just > remember that he got annoyed that Dragaerans called it wine. Naturally, > this doesn't answer your questions... Well, it rather does -- yes, Michelle, you're missing something, or rather, you're mis-remembering something. Like Jose says, it isn't that Vlad doesn't like brandy, it's that he dislikes Dragaerans completely missing the point between brandy and its less potent cousin, wine. Dragaerans make no difference, calling everything wine; Vlad, and probably a lot of Easterners as well, probably get annoyed with yet another small difference between Dragaerans and humans. At least a few people, such as Kiera and Morrolan, know enough about it to be able to be polite to call it 'brandy'. Betcha Lady Teldra *knows too ... Knightmarshall Felix Surnamed Eisen, or "Iron Felix" Hand of Morr, The Order of Bones * -- Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean.