Davis, Iain E. wrote: >> -----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" For me it was the moment Piro was off to Dzur Mountian, but I had very little other than her name started with 'z' and had just recently gone somewhere and it's the sort of thing Steven in my opinion is likely to do.