Spoilerspace people. On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 10:45:57PM -0800, definitely what <rone at ennui.org> wrote: > Damien Sullivan writes: > On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 20:55, Gaertk at aol.com wrote: > > I think the tampering did happen and is there to explain how > > teleportation and mental contact are so much easier. When did Verra say > > she didn't think it was tampered? > She gives a different explanation to Vlad in _Phoenix_, about people having > strained to use sorcery in the Interregnum, which led to a renaissance when > the Orb came back. > Oh, like she'd tell Vlad the truth. She's more likely to tell Paarfi the truth?! I think a lot of the discrepencies in tPotD can be explained by Paarfi simply making up a good story when he can't find any evidence. He probably had trouble coming up with interviews with some of our main characters, but he could come up with vague understandings of events ("Zerika descended Deathsgate falls while a group of friends held off bandits" but not who those friends were). Paarfi then puts the role onto some of his other characters who are known to be doing *something* at the same time. It's easier for me to believe Paarfi is BSing than to believe Vlad would deliberately invent a claim from Morrolan that Morrolan did not make. And I can easily see how Paarfi could figure out (from reports of the bandits, for example) that someone was with Zerika, but not be able to determine WHO. Certainly Morrolan and Sethra wouldn't necessarily talk to Paarfi. Which leads to an interesting question. The next volume is The Lord of Castle Black. Presumably it will have a greater focus on Morrolan. So how did Paarfi get enough information to write a semibiographical book? I rather doubt that he actually get Morrolan to give an interview, if we assume that Paarfi got the cliff-face events incorrect. I suppose there is an alternative -- Morrolan may well have been "at the top of the cliff, holding off bandits, while Zerika (lept/climbed) down". That implies he was there with Zerika, of course, but he could have been holding off an entirely separate group of bandits. Certainly Deathsgate Falls is a rather large cliff and he could easily have been elsewhere on said cliff. But I don't think Morrolan is the type to grasp for extra glory by putting it that way when it implies something so different from what actually happened. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp