Dragaera

Kragar (was: A thought concerning Skinter's future...)

Tue Nov 4 21:43:57 PST 2003


On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Mark A Mandel wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Philip Hart wrote:
>
> #Sort of open-ended question, but could it be that the whole
> #Kragar-is-invisible thing is just a running joke on Vlad's part?
> #I can only think of one instance (involving an inadvertent teleport)
> #where this is a plot point.
>
> Somewhere Kragar saves Vlad from an assassination attempt. Vlad had told
> him to stay away, and he hadn't seen him there, and neither had the
> would-be killer. Vlad -- in his own report, of course -- uses this
> episode later to make a point to Kragar about being unable to escape
> one's House heritage, saying something like, "You acted like a Dragon.
> The only reason a Jhereg will disobey his boss is to kill him, not to
> save him."


That would be _Jhereg_ I think - Vlad's meeting with the Demon where he
says he won't sully Morollan's honor.  I don't see this as dispositive of
the Kragar-actually-visible theory, though obviously even less positive.