Dragaera

Paths of the Dead

Wed Dec 4 07:03:52 PST 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Hunter [mailto:matthew at infodancer.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 2002 December 04 4:51
> To: dragaera at dragaera.info
> Subject: Re: Paths of the Dead
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> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:34:00PM -0600, Matthew Hunter 
> <matthew at infodancer.org> wrote:
> > Tue Dec  3 22:33:37 CST 2002: Mark.
> Wed Dec  4 04:25:10 CST 2002: Complete.
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> Spoilers to follow.  The author is invited to stop reading now, 
> and start writing the next volume instead.  
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Spoiler lines left to protect the innocent. Oh. Too late.

> The following are my stream-of-consciousness notes, produced 
> while reading The Paths of the Dead:

> Eastern tribes of no claimed significant: Nemites, Letites, 
> Straves?.  Who are they?  They are, of course, significant, 
> because Paarfi said they weren't.

> The Sorceress Orlann.  'nuff said.  There are some very 
> interesting questions raised here.  Either Vlad is even more of 
> an idiot than he admits to, or perhaps more of a liar than he 
> pretends, or something very interesting is yet to occur.  

Definitely.  Disguise? Misinformation? Transformation? Relative? Oh the
potential for complications.
 
> The Sorceress In Green.  Apparantly there's more mystery here 
> than Vlad is aware of.  Is Morrolan's house identification of her 
> mistaken?  Certainly not an unwelcome appearance.

Although one wonders about her real agenda or goals.  Merely
self-interest?  Somehow, I doubt it is quite that simple. :)

> Zerika.  Did anyone NOT know who she was from the first moment 
> she appeared (in disguise)?  And for that matter, "no one is 
> anyone else" my ass. :)

My initial assumption was that she was a Yendi. :)

I realized she was Zerika later on, before Paarfi revealed it, but but
not from the beginning, as it were.  I'm not sure at which moment it
"clicked"