Just a note to both of you: discussions of the plot of the latest book or two, and particularly discussions including large revelations of that nature, should have some space between the top of the message and the actual revelation to prevent unsuspecting list-readers who haven't gotten the book yet from hearing about plot details they don't want to know about. These are commonly called spoilers, and the space used to obscure them is called spoiler space. (In fact, it is frequently a good idea to protect certain large-scale spoilers forever until the end of time, although opinions on this differ. Of course, everybody who disagrees with me is wrong.) Spoiler space looks like this: Spoilers for Sethra Lavode... (Important! Mention which book you're spoiling. Just saying "Spoiler space" is not a lot of help unless everyone has read everything in the whole world.) On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Andrew Joubert wrote: @> Hi! I'm new to the list too, and I caught the same thing on a recent @> reread of the series. @> @> The Tecka in question is Paresh, and the book is _Teckla_. @> Page 31 of my paperback has the story, including the line: @> "Inform your master that the Duke of Arylle will see him" @> @> Which I'll just take as evidence that when you write a score of books over a @> couple of decades, you have a few contradictions, and not proof Tazendra is @> a transvestite . :) Actually, there was some discussion on the list a bit back about which account was more accurate, for whatever value of the word is appropriate. While it might be the case that Brust wrote the original without intending it to be Tazendra and Aerich, it is definitely the case that he had access to the original version when he wrote the other one, so inconsistencies like this are more likely to be things we're supposed to think about than simple errors. (Although the possibility of errors does exist.) And the gender of the master is hardly the worst inconsistency involved, particularly since we know Draegaran has a gender-neutral pronoun set.