On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Scott Schultz wrote:
> It's interesting to speculate about these things but I expect the real world
> reason is that Steve just changed his mind somewhere along the way. When he
> wrote Taltos, he had one idea of Morollan's background and when he wrote
> Lord of Castle Black he had a different one or one that was more fleshed out
> than previously.
Note the option that V got the story mixed up ("A friend of mine" -> "I");
or mixed the story up to make it simpler, or M more interesting...