SPOILERS FOR BROKEDOWN PALACE --- Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote: > Vlad's lineage doesn't much interest me (Verra tells > speculation) - but Cawti's does. > Her maternal grandsomething is something odd - I > didn't understand this > point in _Brokedown Palace_ and don't understand how > it tracks with the > Dragaeran world we know from the Vladiad and the >Paarfiad. Cawti's maternal grandfather is a demon. The demons mentioned here may seem different from the descriptions in other books, leading to confusion. However, there may be many types and degrees of power among demons. The common ones in Fenario might be minor servants of Verra (or at least they serve her if she bothers to control them for something). I don't think Bolcsesseg is a demon, or any other kind of thing described in the other books (this is one of the most likely points of confusion for people who read the main series of books first). I think he is a representative of "real" magic from back on Earth (not the semi-scientific chaos/ammorphia). He is one of the myths, stories, archetypes of the collective unconsciousness or whatever you like. That's what he means when he says he is older than the power of Faerie. He used to be allied to Verra (and her sisters) because of their former place in folklore. Now they have changed or given their aspect to another power of a different type (the Lords of Judgement). __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools