On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 06:59:24PM -0500, ReVibe68 at aol.com wrote: > SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS > > > > > > > I am looking for connections between the Vladiad and The Viscount of > Adrilanka as well as The Khaavren Romances or rather the reverse > actually.Looking for any clues that would give me the identity of the Demon > as well as Kragar. We've already seen where Loraan comes in. .as a puppet > of Kana. We know that Khaavren is alive in Phoenix (although in that > appearance he was quite the bully). > It would not suprise me that SKZB has peppered Viscount and Khaavren Romances > with other clues. In fact it would surprise me. Vladimir Taltos is a Jhereg assassin, whose life has largely been spent among the dregs of society. Khaavren and his friends and his families have been involved in the highest affairs of the Empire. Now, the author is forced to admit that the Jhereg Easterner has also, for inexplicable reasons, some connections to Imperial affairs, and to those more directly involved. But those same connections are through honorable nobles who do not stoop to hidden identities, and we have already been allowed to see those connections -- Morrolan, and Zerika, and the recovering of Aliera right after the Interregnum, and of course Sethra Lavode. To be precise, readers of the light crime fiction known as the Vlad Taltos novels could have predicted seeing those very characters. But the Demon, whom we are told was an active Jhereg before the Interregnum, is someone whom we have no reason to see in the more historical works. As for Khaavren, I fail to see how a gentleman commander's endeavoring to minimize the casualties among revolting Easterners, despite the fact that their miserable lifespans would run out in short order anyway, could possibly be mistaken for the appearance of a bully. It is true that he is somewhat gruff, but then that is how he appears in his own books, and a gruff but watchful command is far removed from the dominant bluster of a bully. And if he were to read your comments I do not think I would be far wrong in pretending that he would be within his rights to demand satisfaction from you. But no doubt you will be spared such accounting to a noble whose services to the Empire have been attested to by Sethra Lavode herself. Yours truly, Sir Damien Sullivan, House of the Phoenix