definitely what wrote: > [[SPOILER] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Davis, Iain E. writes: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Matthew Hunter [mailto:matthew at infodancer.org] > > 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. > > I posit that it is simply a coincidence. > > > 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. :) > > Ditto. But i honestly did not catch on, so the revelation was quite > welcome. > Well my theory was the book was to tell of when Zerika retrieved the orb >from the paths of the dead. So let us recount: (1)A friend of the Viscount of undetermined origin whose name began with the letter (2)Z suddenly goes away with no information as to where or why, then next (3) Kytrann shows up to take the Viscount to Dzur mountian AND (4) we get no more information on Zivra before the point we make it to Dzur mountian and are to meet Zerika. I felt sad that I had made the guess and was right and had missed the feeling of 'Whoa Zivra is Who? Cool.'(only in retrospect is that cool, because Zerika has a connection to Piro, and Khaavren) But Parrfi knew very well it was possible to make this connection as he even talks about it a little and put those who knew back into perspective to say well Piro didn't so he's going to think this is a big deal, and he's not dumb for thinking it is. As for Zivra being someone else it's not really the same as Sethra/Kiera as she is distinctly *trying* to be diferent people and is aware of it. Zivra doesn't know until she is told that she is the Phoenix heir and when she finds out she is still very much Zivra with a new name of Zerika and the position to be Empress this revelation for her does change her. I think for all intensive reasons she is really the same person and her new perspective changed Zivra (whom really was just named wrong and not told of her heritage, Heh-hum *clears throat* it is hard not to notice this is Sethra's doing). Steve never said someone couldn't change themselves (after all if no one changed it wouldn't be interesting) "no one is anyone else" - that's a deceptively open statement though *I* wouldn't take it that way. It could mean if it's in the character of someone to pretend they are someone other than who they are - like Sethra - they aren't someone else they are themselves by *pretending* to be someone else. > rone