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Idle Speculation (SPOILERS)

FRIEDA2133 at aol.com FRIEDA2133 at aol.com
Sun Oct 17 15:16:32 PDT 2004

>Minor Spoiler for Sethra Lavode
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FRIEDA2133.aol.com wrote on Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:24:41 EDT 

>Has anyone figured out a House for Grassfog and his sister
>Tsira?  

>Could they have been Easterners?  Sethra Lavode, Chapter
>79 a body will be burned to speed it to the next life.  No talk
>on that page about should we bring the body to Deathgate.
>Others were brought to Deathgate and we learn their Houses
>on page 336  Sethra Lavode,  Epilogue.  Just wondering because
>of that ch ain and  am ulet.

Hi,

I guess not unless Grassfog is a very long-lived Easterner.

Lord of Castle Black Chapter 47 page 145 paperback

Grassfog speaking:  "I was apprenticed to a physicker for a
time, shortly before the Interregnum".  Which would make him
over 247 years old.

And here I had a nice theory going on a connection between
Tsira, Grassfog's sister, and Vlad or Cawti's family based on
successful, point-first knife-throwing.  I was going to add
this to the thought that the ch ain knew something and was
trying to get to D*livar's next life because it did not get to
stay with the present life P*ro.  But the P*ro idea fell apart...
unless...no stop writing about it.  Wait.  But it could be 
several books from now.  Wait patiently.  

Here is the knife connection anyway.

Sethra Lavode Chapter 96 page 283 hardback

Tsira "quickly threw a knife with such skill that it seemed to 
weave its way around her friends and strike one of the enemy, 
point-first in his chest". 

The Book of Athyra, Orca Chapter 12 page 377-378 
Orca paperback page 214

"To my amazement it actually hit him point-first" ...
"and wouldn't you know it, the one I'd had time to aim hit
him sort of edge-on in the stomach and did no damage to 
speak of"

I was thinking it was a family trait and a subconscious use
of witchcraft.  Because the witch does not realize they 
are changing the spin, it might work best when the conscious 
mind doesn't try to interfere by aiming or with a little help
>from Verra.

The Book of Taltos, Taltos page 10 Chapter 1

"all the things Noish-pa was showing me--like how to make a 
leaf blow slightly askew of the wind just by willing it to"

Bye.

Linda G.