>From: Steve Simmons <scs at lokkur.dexter.mi.us> >To: Dragaera Mailing List <dragaera at dragaera.info> >Subject: Some Observations on an As Yet Unpublished Novel . . . >Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 00:10:33 -0400 > >(no spoilers) > snip >During such a pause, the notion entered my somewhat but temporarily >disordered mind as to what one of the as-yet-unpublished memoirs of >Vlad called Taltos might be concerned with, especially when conjoined >with the limitations on the series such that one of the volumes must >inevitably be entitled 'Tiassa.' Numerous Tiassa have peopled the >writings concerning Dragaera, whether they be those from the inimitable >Paarfi (I speak ironicly, of course) or those from the memoirs of Vlad, >the phrasings of whom much more resemble that of certain delicate but >delectable breakfast delicacies after having been subjected to an excess >of time in overheated waters. Lamentably few of those Tiassa have been >mentioned by name by either author, and while we mean no insult to >the many unnamed Tiassa, the most prominent of the the Tiassa we >have had the pleasure of encountering are Khaavren, Daro, and the >current novels eponymous character Pel, I must hope you have the honor of refering to Piro, son of Khaavren, Inasmuch as Pel is the familiar (though not perhaps strictly accurate) name of a certain person thought to be of the house of the Yendi. (Of which fact, however, we are not entirely certain.) The Viscount of Adrilankha. >As we have seen from Vlads own somewhat spare narration, his own >somewhat checkered and possibly exaggerated career (for what mere >Easterner could expect a career worth documentation in over seventeen >volumes) does indeed overlap with at least one of the three Tiassa >whose names we have had the unreserved pleasure of noting just >briefly before this terse sentence. > snip James Griffin, Still Another Vlad faN _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus