On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Jason *Jaxel* Axelrod wrote: >SPOILER WARNING. > > [ snip summary of the Laszlo problem ] >So who is Laszlo? Perhaps my question will be answered in Sethra >Lavode. There has been a great deal of pararectal ideation on the topic, and we have pretty much arrived at the same conclusion. No one, save perhaps SKZB, knows exactly what is going on with him. > > >Another question as I have managed to read the entire Brokedown Palace in a >single day. Is there yet any theories to who the daughter of Miklos and >Brigitta is? There are not only theories, there is a definitive /ex cathedra/ statement by Pope Steve that the daughter of Miklos and Brigitta is no other than Cawti. > It would be improbable that the daughter was Cawti because since >Devera is but a small elf child, Cawti would be of middle age or >older at the present time of history. If Devera were an ordinary Dragaeran, perhaps. But she is not. >that Cawti would be born, the only place you would have been able to find >Devera would have been in the Paths of the Dead or in the dreams of those >bound to her. Devera shows up where-ever and whenever she pleases. She is perhaps most familiar with the Paths and with Verra's Halls, but she is far more peripatetic than that. > The fact that Devera is alive is considerable proof that the story >of BP takes place a considerable time after the current Vlad Taltos >stories. It most certainly is not.