Dragaera

Flying Dragons

Joy Jennifer Nicholson jjnichol at MIT.EDU
Tue Feb 24 19:18:22 PST 2004

 
> > As to the Devera/Dragon thing, I always 
> > assumed that it was the same dragon from 
> > the paths of the dead, and any recognition 
> > would come from that.  Recall that Steve 
> > said that nobody was anybody else.
> 
> A long time ago, someone said (and I paraphrase)
> 
> "I think that dragon might be Devera"
> 
> To which Steven replied with (and again I paraphrase)
> 
> "Give that person a cigar"


iirc, it was a banana

> 
> Thus making it canonical.
> 
> I don't think that Devera showing up as a dragon violates
> Steven's statements about noone being anyone else.
> 
> As I recall, Vlad is admonished in _Taltos_ by Devera
> not to tell her mom (Aliera) about her.  He then goes
> on to say "I met your daughter".  I presume it's a
> well known fact by _Issola_, even if she isn't born.
> 
> (Regrettably I'm AFB, and Taltos isn't in the book search,
> so I can't provide a textev for that, just my own failing
> memory)
> 
> -Jot
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