>Philip Hart - Wed, 09 Jul 2003 18:18:22 -0700 (PDT) said:
>
>As preparation for a certain imminent threat, I just started rereading
>_TPotD_ and came across a few minor things I don't understand, e.g.:
I have also just reread PotD as well as Taltos (and now back to rereading
Dragon)...
>Miska names Morrolan in the language of the Silatan - who are they to
>Morrolan? And why does Morrolan not stick with a name in a language he
>speaks - maybe Paarfi simplifying? Note that later (pg 82) Teldra calls
>them the Silites.
Ok, my question is, in Taltos when Aliera first meets Morrolan, she
recognizes the name as being related to Morrolan's fathers name... How does
she do this if his name is taken from a foreign language?
>The instructions to the Circle ("have them meet us there as best they can
>in their own time") seem comically vague, given the lifespans and
>geography involved, and the fact that many chapters (and a few years)
>later, M&Co are still stuck in the East without any of the Circle showing
>up - wouldn't a few have tagged along? (Maybe Paarfi is simplifying the
>tedious truth here).
Noish-pa lived or at least visited the East, since he was able to "show"
Vlad stars and clouds, etc. Is he or maybe his parents part of Morrolan's
circle of witches? I think it is in Phoenix where Noish-pa and Morrolan
first meet (according to Vlad's account of things).
Going back to Taltos, why does Morrolan keep telling Vlad how he helped
Zerika II regain the orb and reform the empire. He also stated he was at
Deathgate Falls fighting off brigands while Zerika made her decent. Is it
Vlad misquoting him or was Morrolan trying to impress Vlad with a little(?)
white lie? Or maybe Paarfi is mistaken on who actually accompanied Zerika on
that adventure and Morrolan's whereabouts and involvement in it (maybe, for
some reason, his involvement is a state secret which Paarfi is out of the
loop on, and also explains why Morrolan seemed to make so little progress on
his trip west...
(btw, whatever happened to the honorable profession of proof-reader?
obviously, Tor no longer seems to use them, even the mmpb version of Dragon
is full of typos...)
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