Dragaera

Paths of the Dead *spoilers*

Sat Dec 7 23:12:04 PST 2002

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 08:42:32PM -0500, Gaertk at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 12/6/2002 5:06:47 PM Eastern Standard 
> Time, Matthew Hunter <matthew at infodancer.org> writes:
> > On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 04:03:25PM -0600, Gametech 
> > <voltronalpha at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> ? ? Excellent!
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> >> *spoilers to follow*
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> >> Premenitions (of which it would take no genius to 
> >> conclude) and feelings:
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> >> 1. I felt teased when reading about Morrolan (becuase this 
> >> story only lightly involved him), Bravo, gimmie more.
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> > Ditto. ?I liked the Excaliber reference for Blackwand, too.
> Did you notice the eyes on the fish?  Remember that 
> Dragonlords show their lineage with a dragonhead emblem with 
> eyes of certain color[s].  I'm betting that fish's eyes were
> the e'Drien colors (can anyone remember if we've seen the 
> e'Drien emblem?).

Not at the time, but probably a reasonable interpertation.

> >> 3. I seemed to think that the pyrologist was *sent* to 
> >> Whitegrest Manor more than arrived there because of what 
> >> he said had made him come, I can't seem to remember what 
> >> caused me to think this, but Pel and our Lyorn friend come
> >> to mind. Khaavren will of course stop wallowing (I should 
> >> hope that if I have made any other assumptions, that this 
> >> one not be one I am incorrect about), Good. Gimmie more.
> > Pel was the one who paid a witch to give someone an idea. 
> > That "idea" was that the pyrologist go to Khaavren (witness 
> > his false vision).
> This is bugging me a bit because it *wasn't* a false vision.
> He had a vision of a corpse in Adrilankha that seemed to have 
> died from the plague.  Because of that vision, he left home 
> and traveled to Adrilankha, and found an actual corpse that
> matched his vision (but not his interpretation).  So what was 
> the idea that Pel gave him?  And how long had that fellow 
> been a corpse?  Could Pel have known of his death?

I think you're reading too much into this.  The pyrologist 
doubtlessly found a corpse he wanted to believe matched his 
vision.

> >> 5. What month is it coming!? August 1 2003?, good, gimmie 
> >> more.
> > Whine.
> At least we know the remaining volumes are already finished,
> so we don't have to worry about "unexpected delays" from the 
> author.

That just makes it worse.  Tor, end the torment!

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