Dragaera

Who is Laszlo?

Kenneth Gorelick pulmon at comcast.net
Mon Feb 16 04:25:38 PST 2004

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
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