On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, David Silberstein wrote: #Hm. No. There's too much of what looked to me like dissembling, #plotting, and scheming purely for its own sake that just says #"Yendi" to me. I'm not sure where you get Dzur or Athyra from at #all. They aren't particularly heroic or intellectual, after all. #And Yendis are kinda like evil Issola anyways - all the courtesy #serving the multiple (very often nasty) surprises. Yendi aren't evil per se. They're just twisty. Was Pel evil? -- Mark A. Mandel http://cracksandshards.com a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website