Dragaera

everything can be found in Paarfi

Mark A Mandel mam at theworld.com
Fri Jul 25 15:17:08 PDT 2003

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, David Silberstein wrote:

#>> #Mark A. Mandel wrote:
#>> #
#>> #>ISTR that somewhere we hear that lineage goes through the
#>> #>same-sex parent: mother to daughter, father to son.

#I think I've found the textev for that, by the way:  /The Phoenix
#Guards/, Chapter 10 ("Tazendra's History"), page 99 in the PB:
#
#      "Oh, but come Tazendra, she must have been bold enough
#   for two Dzurlords; where else could you have gotten such
#   courage?  For we all know that character passes from
#   mother to daughter, just as from father to son.  Cracks in
#   the Orb, haven't the Dragon wizards proved it?"
#
#I am not 100% confident that Khaavren is accurately stating what it is
#that the Dragon wizards proved, assuming he did not in fact make it up
#from whole cloth in order bolster his attempts to draw Tazendra out.

That sounds like what I remember, and is clearly not lineage.

But "making it up from whole cloth in order bolster his attempts to draw
Tazendra out" doesn't sound to me consistent with Khaavren's honest
character.

-- Mark A. Mandel
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