On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Ruhlen, Rachel Louise (UMC-Student) wrote: >When Vlad first goes to Dzur Mountain, the servant is Chez (not sure >on the spelling, don't have it in front of me.) Later when he goes to >Dzur Mountain, at least in _Issola_, and I think another time as >well, the servant is named Tukko. The description of him is similar >regardless of his name. I had the notion - and I might be wrong on this - that perhaps Sethra's servant's name has been "Tukko" this whole time, and when Vlad heard Sethra *say* "Chaz, do X" (I forget what "X" was, being AFB), Vlad incorrectly *inferred* that "Chaz" was the servant's given name, and "Chaz" is in fact something else. It might be a nickname or diminutive, it might be an endearment (why not? Sethra might become fond of her servants if they serve her well for hundreds or thousands of years), or it could be that "Chaz" was the name of a *previous* servant, and Sethra had a memory dereference error because she was distracted by all the things she was worrying about (getting Aliera out of that staff, the Jenoine, etc)(heck, mothers do the same with their own children's names with *far* less excuse.). And later Vlad found out what Tukko's name was for reals. Or perhaps Vlad had a brain fart because it wasn't that important to him at the time.