On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 18:20, M J wrote: > I don't THINK that this has any spoilers lurking in it, but I've > always been fuzzy on what other people consider to be spoiler-ish. Looked pretty spoilery to me > > So. > > Roll 'em. > > I AM A SPOILER LINE > > > I AM ALSO A SPOILER LINE > > > I AM SON OF SPOILER LINE > > > I AM RETURN OF SPOILER LINE > > > I AM RETURN OF SON OF SPOILER LINE > > > I AM BRIDE OF SPOILER LINE > > > I AM DENNIS LEARY > > > I AM END OF SPOILER LINES! > > > Okay. > > In the beginning of FHYA, Tortaalik gets a message from Princess > Sennya along the lines, "I don't wanna come to the Meeting of the > Principalities," and Tortaalik, after some distinct eye-narrowing > and Jurabin-fussing, agrees that it's okay HE GUESSES for Sennya to > miss out. > > Later we find that Greycat/Garland/ICKYPERSON induced Sennya to > miss out, and hints that he had a hold on Sennya's honor/reputation > to make her do as he wishes. He doesn't say if this was because > she once copied test answers from him, or if in a duel with him she > tripped over a stick and everyone laughed at her, or what, but I > have Evolved A Theory on it. > > In PotD, Sennya muses to herself over how proud she is of Ibronka > (IBRONKA IS GREAT), and throws in: > > 1) that, once in her life, she was "weak"; and > 2) there is someone who is lost to her. > > That 2) might very well be Ibronka's pop Ibron, and it probably is > because Steve is never nice enough to write according to my > theories. But, based on other bits of circumstantial evidence and > my gleeful anticipation of Ibronka smacking Orlaan/Grita around > quite a bit for Mocking All Proper Dzurs, I believe that Grita's > mother was Sennya, and that, therefore, Grita/Orlaan and Ibronka > are half-sisters. THIS WOULD have probably been sufficient > blackmail-material for Greycat to get himself a fairly tame pet > Dzur Heir Sennya. > This has been my running theory since reading FHYA. I believe a few other people on the list have also indicated this was the case. (Actually, if memory serves, someone said it couldn't be the case because they misremembered some of what was said about Ibronka being the only one important to Sennya, but a few people came up with exact quotes that show that it is still quite likely that Grita/Orlaan is Sennya's daughter by Greycat)