--- Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > > > On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Sean Whalen wrote: > > > --- Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > > > We know from _FHYA_ that several courtiers ran > the > > > same risk successfully. > > > > Really? What did they get out of it? > > Jurabin may have gotten de facto control of the > Empire. Shaltre probably > got some influence. Adron got who-knows-what. Note > that Cousin Allistar > survived his brush with discovery - see pg 225 of > _TPG_. Huh? Nothing was discovered. Tortaalik was suspicious when he saw Allistar and Noima together (because of Garland's manipulations to remove others with influence) but had no proof. Later he felt guilty and thought he may have acted harshly for no reason. We know from Illista's conversation with Allistar (overheard by Khaavren) that there wasn't any affair and Noima hardly reacted to his attempts at all. Jurabin got his power from being Prime Minister. I don't think any of these people actually had affairs with Noima or tried to do so to gain personal power. She might have flirted with them slightly to gain attention and feel desired. There's no more proof Noima had affairs with any of the people you name than there is that Allistar meant to displace Tortaalik. That is, they're both speculation. I just like my speculation better. > As to the rest of this argument, we don't seem to be > convincing each > other, so perhaps it's time to await further evidence. Fine. I think I've run out of steam anyway. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html