On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 05:42 PM, Eric Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to this whole mailing list and I just wanted to ask one > question > concerning the books. > > I've just recently reread Taltos and in that book they mention a > character or > two that sound familiar (namely from PotD). Now, is there any > connection > between Loraan(the wizard that has Aliera's soul in Taltos), Orlaan(the > sorceress who is looking for Aliera's sould in PotD) and Rolaan(some > guy in > one of the Vlad books whose function/purpose I really can't remember > at the > moment). It might have been brought up before or it might be the most > stupidly obvious question that any of you have ever heard but I > thought I'd > throw that out there for my sake more than anything. > > Many thanks, > Eric Despite conspiracy theorists here, there is no connection. Steve said that was a coincedence and if he had caught the Orlaan name he would have changed it.