> -----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 > > > 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. > > Spoilers to follow. The author is invited to stop reading now, > and start writing the next volume instead. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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"