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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