--- Jason *Jaxel* Axelrod <jda3 at njit.edu> wrote: > So I just joined this mailing list recently, and I quickly realized that > I > should stay away from it all until I finished reading Issola. I bought > Issola this morning and finishing it this evening. So now I am ready to > ask > some questions that I've been wondering about the series and this list. > I am > sorry if some of these questions sound dumb, but I've read all of the > Vladiad and the Khaavren Romances in a single year and its all a bit of > a > blur and I've forgotten a few things. ... > 4. Can someone explain to me the family tree of all the main chars, > blood or > spiritual alike? Oh, gosh. I'll make a start. Vlad's father's surname ("patronymic") was also Taltos, as is that of his paternal grandfather, who Vlad calls "Noish-pa". Vlad's mother is described as a witch and died when he was very young; his father, when Vlad was in his... early teens? That's in _Taltos_. I can never remember what we know about Cawti, except that she has no patronymic. Vlad and Cawti have a son, Vlad Norathar, mentioned briefly at the end of _Orca_. Vlad doesn't know that. Morrolan e'Drien is the son of Rollondar e'Drien, a character in the Paarfi books, and someone. Immediately after the Interregnum, he was the Dragon Heir. Aliera e'Kieron is the daughter of Adron e'Kieron, who made a Mistake at the end of _FHYA_, and the Demon Goddess Verra. She is Morrolan's first cousin on her father's and his mother's side. She was the Dragon Heir from _Taltos_ to _Yendi_. Devera is is the daughter of Kieron the Conqueror and Aliera, conceived in the Paths of the Dead. Kieron had a brother, Dolavin, and a sister who was a Shaman and whose name we don't know. Dolavin founded the House of the Jhereg. Vlad is the reincarnation of Dolavin and Aliera is the reincarnation of the sister. When last seen in _Taltos_, Kieron was in the Paths of the Dead, not having ventured forth in two hundred thousand years, but he could emerge to get his revenge on Aliera for "trading" away his sword, as he threatened to do. Sethra Lavode's origins are mysterious. A brief and facetious fanfic by one Joel Polowin at <http://tinyurl.com/2pagd> suggests she was a Jenoine experiment gone wrong. She was part of the rock of Dzur Mountain at one time, according to something she says in, I think, _Dragon_. Alexx Kay interprets this on his timeline as meaning that she turned into rock for a while, but when I read it I thought it meant that she originated from that rock somehow. Sethra's servant Tukko addresses her as "young one" and she addresses him by something for which "Tukko" may be a nickname, which I'll bet a dot to an orb means something like "tutelary genius of Dzur Mountain". In _Taltos_ Sethra has a servant named Chaz. Zerika is the daughter of Vernoi and Loudin and was raised under the name of Zivra. Morrolan thinks in _Taltos_ that she's the only living Phoenix. I don't know how Illista, Tortaalik, Noima (if that's her name), and any other Phoenixes are related to her. Sennya is the Dzur heir, at least in FHYA and _Viscount_. Her legitimate daughter is Ibronka (not to be confused with the Easterner of the same name who was briefly Vlad's girlfriend). Garland alias Greycat had an affair with a Dzur, probably Sennya. They had a daughter, Grita alias Orlaan. The similarity between the names Loraan and Orlaan is a coincidence. Piro is the son of Khaavren and Daro. That's a lot of the more important ones, anyway. Jerry Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com