Dragaera

Pel vs. Paarfi

Davdi Silverrock davdisil at gmail.com
Sun Nov 13 19:03:25 PST 2005

On 11/8/05, Bryan Newell <bryann at bryann.net> wrote:
> Be warned there be Spoilers ahead for the following books:
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> The Phoenix Guards
> The Paths of the Dead
> The Lord of Castle Black
> Sethra Lavode
> Brokedown Palace
> Jhereg
> Taltos
> Phoenix
> Athyra
> Orca
> Issola
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> 10. It has been suggested that Paarfi is a mouthpiece for Sethra.  In one of
> my emails to Steven Brust concerning the geography of Dragaera, he responded
> to something I quoted from Paarfi by saying, "Pel is wrong.  Sort of."  The
> passage we were discussing was clearly narrated by Paarfi (it was a
> description of the location of Newmarket relative to Dragaera City early in
> TPG), not directly attributable to Pel.  This seems to suggest that at least
> portions of Paarfi's tale were supplied by Pel, not Sethra.  Or maybe Pel is
> Sethra's mouthpiece, and Paarfi is Pel's.
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To the left, it may have been a typo (of "Pel" for "Paarfi").  I'm
just sayin', is all.

I know I've made the same mistake, in the opposite direction.

Or...

Paarfi is secretly Pel!  That would explain *so much*!!!!