Dragaera

Paarfi's account vs... (major spoilers for Sethra Lavode)

Gaertk at aol.com Gaertk at aol.com
Thu May 20 13:57:56 PDT 2004

philiph at slac.stanford.edu writes:

> On Thu, 20 May 2004, John Klein wrote:
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>>>> You mean, Tazendra is wandering the villages in her 
>>>> fiefdom, telling stories about her adventures to random 
>>>> farmers? Observe my hollow laughing. I could see some gossip 
>>>> and vague rumors circulating, but there's no reason to suspect
>>>> that he knows any of the names of the participants.
>>>
>>> She drinks in taverns and boasts to travelling nobles and the 
>>> waitstaff hears her.  And do you think Mica fails to mention 
>>> his master's accomplishments and associates to all and sundry? 
>>> And do you think there's no intercourse between the Teckla of 
>>> the nearby estates?
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>> In order: probably, of course not, and not that much. I expect 
>> that things that the Teckla talk about are going to be more on 
>> the order of what cousin Ed did last Marketday, and how much a 
>> roast kethna is going for. Why would they care about anything 
>> beyond the fact that she's had some adventures somewhere and is a
>> great and powerful warlord? It's not real.
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> It's exciting.  Five hundred years is a long time to talk about 
> the weather, esp. after harvest season.  Re intercourse, I've just
> reread Jane Austen and get the sense that there would be a good 
> deal of it.

Counter example: no one in Smallcliff was aware that anything 
interesting happened to their leige lord in the last couple years.

>>> I think if he had known who Aerich was, his account to Vlad 
>>> would be slightly different.
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>> In what way?
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> I think he'd say something snide about the famous hero.  Wildly
> speculative point though.

Is Duke Temma a famous war hero though?  Especially prior to 
Paarfi's books?  I got the impression that Paarfi had never heard
of him before starting his research.


--KG