Joshua Kronengold wrote: > Cawti was reading the Paarfi romances, or at least what was > available (given the timing of what we've seen, some other > History than that of the Guards, or the serialization thereof, > prior to their Compilation in Book Form). But Vlad expressed > an Informed Opinion of them, unless I Misremember, and > therefore has at least Accquaintance with them. To which, Howard Brazee replied: > Vlad did not know as much about Morollan's attack on Easterners > as we do - from our readings of Paarfi. Alexx (http://www.panix.com/~alexx/dragtime.html) places the following entry in his miscellaneous post-Interregnum/pre-Vlad category. "Early Paarfi". While Paarfi of Roundwood clearly becomes most famous for his "Khaavren" novels hundreds of years after this, there are two mentions of his works (without titles) in "Vlad-period" books (refs?). While it is implied that he only had one earlier "popular" work (Three Broken Strings, FH 13) from University Press, it is possible that some other "popular" work was released by other publishers, possibly including early drafts of what later became the "Khaavren" novels. Perhaps these became sufficiently widely read that Paarfi acquired some upper-class fans who persuaded him to "clean up" his work sufficiently to submit to the Imperial Library. He doesn't submit the notebook that was the source material for TPG until after the "present" time of the Vladiad so far. (20 years or so after the end of Issola).