At 10:22 PM 7/18/2004 -0400, you wrote: >First, the Please-don't-flame-me disclaimer : I've been afk from the list >for a while now, so my apologies if this has been discussed already -- ran >a couple of relevant key-word searches, but couldn't find the following >discussion if there was one. So...question is below > > >MINORS SPOILERS IN QUESTION BELOW: >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >. >Having just re-read SL, I found myself wondering about Piro and Ibronka's >career(s) subsequent to Paarfi's final note that they now live somewhere >in Adrilanka; it seems to me that both are excellent candidates for the >Jhereg. They are, after all, ex-highway men, socially well connected, >and have to maintain themselves somehow. (This might also apply to Roaana >and the rest of the band, for that matter, save he who joined the >Guards) Indeed, it left me asking Why wouldn't they join the Jhereg? > >Taking this notion to the extreme, I found myself wondering...has Demon's >identity been trully sussed? I jokingly asked this question after LoCB and had it pointed out that there are references to the Demon being part of the organization prior to the Interregnum. Vlad's comments on his age also point to him being significantly older than Piro. Alexx's timeline <http://www.panix.com/~alexx/dragtime.html> has Piro being born about 145 years into the Interregnum and the Demon probably being born something like 300 years before the Interregnum began (and taking a seat on the Jhereg council shortly after the Interregnum ended). One the right hand, there's nothing that says that Vlad couldn't be a poor judge of how old a Dragaeran really is (and hardships may cause Piro to look older than he is). On the left hand, it's unlikely that Piro could rise through the ranks of the Jhereg quickly enough to get a council seat when the Demon supposedly did. So, it's unlikely, but certainly not impossible. However, I'd think that if the Demon was the son of the Captain of the Phoenix Guards it would hardly be something that he'd be able to keep quiet. Charley Sumner "They've hid the information in plain sight by disguising it as a web page." - Gunsmith Cats