[items elided] > These > > are > > SPOILERS, > > or > > I'm > > a > > Norska! [items elided] > I am worried about Tazendra, because if she were still alive, > Paarfi's career would be much shorter (she's not known for > leaving her victims revivifyable). [items elided] I tend to agree with this one, which is sort of a shame, as Tazendra is probably my favourite character on Dragaera (assuming, perhaps wrongly, that we can call the planet--and perhaps associated, possibly extraplanetary or extra-planar, regions such as the Paths of the Dead and the Halls of Judgement--by the name Dragaera). Paarfi's panegyric on her trailblazing (but not often remembered) contributions to post-Interregnum sorcery (combined with the implication in Teckla that she met with some accident in her castle) makes me fear that if she does not die in the last volume of The Viscount of Adrilanka, she will at least die sometime before Paarfi writes that book. -- J A Dusty Sayers 'Plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery.' --original