Dragaera

Cycle Progression

Sun Mar 14 20:02:55 PST 2004


On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Bryan Newell wrote:

> There is one other semi-major Tsalmoth, unless Vlad is mistaken:
>
> Jhereg, page 101 of the Book of Jhereg - Fentor was a Tsalmoth, and he'd
> been with Morrolan's security forces for over fifty years.
>
> Yendi, page 240 of the Book of Jhereg - I concentrated on a certain
> Tsalmoth, who worked for Morrolan and reported directly to me....
>
> Now, I'm half convinced this Fentor is the same Fentor from the Lord of
> Castle Black, but _that_ Fentor was a Dragon:
>
> The Lord of Castle Black, page 73 - [Morrolan] had been fortunate enough to
> find a Dragonlord named Fentor e'Mondaar.

I suspect it's the same Fentor, but given Fe'M's prominent role in the
Nth Battle of Dzur Mountain etc., and his rank of, well, whatever it was,
it's hard to see him being at Castle Black instead of ruling some barony
awarded for service to the Orb; being asked to work under an Eastern
Jhereg, and being as subservient as he is towards Vlad.  And if it is the
same Fentor, Vlad sort of ought to know that the Nth Battle was more than
50 years in the past...



> Now, we know Vlad is not the foremost expert on House identification (see
> the Lady Daro, a Tiassa who Vlad mistakes for a Lyorn), so who knows.  If
> Fentor in Vlad's time is a Tsalmoth, he does appear quite a bit different in
> character than Lord Garland.

This doesn't reflect on Vlad - Khaavren makes the same mistake.  Has Vlad
ever seen Daro, for that matter?  Does he know she's married to Khaavren?