On Feb 15, 2004, at 10:59 PM, Toubib wrote: > > --- Jason *Jaxel* Axelrod <jda3 at njit.edu> wrote: >> SPOILER WARNING. >> >> >> >> So I just finished LOCB and it occurred to me that >> something doesn't make >> sense about Laszlo, the Count of Brimford. Laszlo is >> an easterner and the >> empress Zerika's secret lover. He is her secret >> lover because Laszlo is an >> easterner and it would be unbecoming for the >> Dragaeran empress to be >> consorting with an easterner. LOCB takes place 250 >> years before Phoenix in >> which Zerika admits to Vald that she does infact >> have an eastern lover and >> his name is Laszlo. 250 years? How could an >> easterner such as Laszlo manage >> to live for more then 120 years? > [snip] > So who is Laszlo? Perhaps my >> question will be answered >> in Sethra Lavode. > > Althought I haven't read LOCB yet, I would hazzard a > guess that it could be a different Laszlo. Also we > don't know much about Laszlo in the present day, so > who can say what his current status is. > Are you suggesting that in addition to being a miscegenist, the empress is promiscuous? Or merely serially monogamous? > >> 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? At first I started to think that it >> could possibly be Cawti as >> Devera popped up and explained to Miklos that in the >> future it would be the >> people who would have to look out and be wary of his >> daughter. But then I >> realized that it was Devera who had spoken! 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. At the time >> 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. 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. So then perhaps Miklos' daughter is no one >> of consequence and >> anyone who pursues to investigate such bloodlines >> would be in for a lost >> cause? > > Cawti is Miklos and Brigitta's daughter. Remember time > doesn't affect Devera the same as it does everyone > else. Devera delivered a letter to her grandfather > from her grandmother with the news of her mother's > birth. That pretty much demonstrates her special > status in the space-time continuum. > > Doc > > ===== > Doc > www.toubib.us > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html >