On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, David Silberstein wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Noam Izenberg wrote: > > > > >One could argue that another human was at least partially > >responsible for the Disaster, and thus the destruction, or at > >least disruption, of the Cycle. > > > >- Unless Mario is not human (Don't we only have Vlad's assertions > >as evidence that he is?). > > Er. Human in which sense? You perceive, it is confusing to use that > particular term, since both Dragaerans and Easterners call themselves > "human". > > We have Paarfi of Roundwood's history, which firmly describes Mario as > being a Jhereg, which is to say, a Dragaeran Jhereg. We know that > Mario is defintely a Dragaeran, because he is little more than 100 > years old (FHYA, chapter 19) and is still considered very young. I've long thought that the important bits of _FHYA_ were ghost written (vampire written?) by Sethra, who is notably Eastern-tolerant. Even in _TPG_ Paarfi paints very sympathetic pictures of the two main Eastern characters. And everyone will have noted the strong (no, obsessional) pro-hybrid theme of the Piroiad. It just occurred to me that Sethra, who habitually falls into old modes of speech, is the original mixed breed...