> ISTR the transition being described as "peaceful" AFB, but the notes in > my Timeline suggest that pgs.315-316 of FHYA are the place to check. The paperback has Khaavren trying to get into Daro's pants on pgs 315/6... > > We know that Vlad and Cawti read Paarfi's works and consider them > > to be romantic fiction, not a history of the events they're set > > around. Based on that, we have to be careful about taking anything in them > > as fact just because the books are as real to us as the Taltos books are. > > Textev on that is a bit weak. The Paarfi books that we have access to > were definitely published well after the references in the Vlad books. > And what we know of Paarfi's previous publishing history suggests that > it was for a far more scholarly market. Of course, we only have Paarfi's > own word for that. > > My personal feeling is that the Vlad-period references to "Paarfi romances" > are jokes put in by Brust, on the theory that the amusement value was > worth the anachronism. Dumb explanation - Vlad doesn't refer to Paarfi in the original but to "Historical Romance X" which Brust-the-translator, being unversed in Dragaeran lit. and knowing his audience is as well, either ignorantly or simplifyingly ascribes to Paarfi. I happen to dislike knowing that the Empire will survive smoothly to Norathar and would value a consistent belief-system allowing me to become ignorant on this point.