Dragaera

A question on FHYA

Mon Nov 25 20:20:05 PST 2002

On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 08:13  PM, Jag wrote:

> I've been rereading FHYA and noticed something a little odd.  Near the
> end of the book, the last straw that causes Adron to go from waiting to
> attacking is learning of the arrest of his daughter.  At the time Aerich
> comments on how he'd like to know the details of the arrest, and Adron
> confers and says that he will ask when he storms the city.
>
> However, earlier in the book it is noted that Adron and Aliera are
> capable of psionic communication with each other.  So, this leads me to
> wonder, why didn't Aliera just tell her father what happened?  And why
> didn't Adron try to communicate with Aliera to ask her?
>
> As best I can figure, Aliera hoped her arrest would lead to Adron taking
> action.  That's why she was so nonchalant about Khaavren coming to
> arrest her.  As for Adron, I suppose we can just assume that he was so
> outraged at what happened that he didn't think to, or want to[1], find
> out what really happened.
>
> I'm also somewhat surprised that Paarfi didn't predict this possible
> question from the reader and try to answer it for us.[2]
>
> Does anyone else have any possible explinations for why Adron and Aliera
> didn't communicate with one another following her arrest?

I haven't read FHYA for a while, but maybe he wanted to know the offical 
side of the arrest rather than just Aliera's.  On the other hand, since 
there have been advances in sorcerery since then, maybe psionic 
communication has advanced too, and in FHYA it requires some sort of 
effort to be receptive to communication

AkodoBob
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