Gametech wrote: > Michelle Goepp wrote: >>> Jose Marquez wrote: >>>> 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... >> >> --- FelixEisen at aol.com wrote: >> >>> 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. >> <snip> >> >> I beg to differ. I've finally tracked down the quote >> (see, I *knew* I wasn't going crazy!) to page 197 of >> my ACE paperback copy of Yendi, where Vlad comments: >> "I helped myself to a large glass of brandy, which I >> despise, but it's stronger than wine..." I would say >> that's a pretty strong indication that he doesn't like >> the stuff. >> >> ~M > > Well in Teckla he goes to a inn and has two glasses of an eastern > brandy, If I remember correctly. > If you remember it. It's the only scene where Kiera runs into him in > that book, I believe. > > Teckla happens after Yendi in chron. so maybe his opinion of Brandy is > improving or he dislikes it less than wine or one of other reasons. Err... wait That wasn't in Teckla it was in Taltos which was in the past related to Teckla and Yendi so I'd have to say that maybe the experience I referenced was onto his journey of discovering he didn't much care for brandy. -thanks self for catching his own mistake before anyone else. heh