Warning: Spoilers ahoy! On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 21:32:19 +0000, you wrote: >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... A while back, we had some discussion of this on the list. Since Tazendra was indeed there, but appears to not be in the circle that Vlad is hanging around in, when she should be, some think possibly Tazendra is no longer with us. In addition, she introduced herself as a Lavode, but Lavodes don't exist anymore either. We also know from Issola that a soul is, at least once, part of the creation of a Great Weapon. So, quite possibly, Tazendra is now the soul in Blackwand. Given Morrolan's mystic bent and oddly archaic way of speaking, it's entirely likely that he would refer to memories he derived from Tazendra's soul (as Blackwand) as his own. Just a theory, of course. It's entirely likely that Steve lied to keep us on our toes, or that a Yendi is working as editor at Tor. -- lazarus "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American Public." -- Theodore Roosevelt