Mia McDavid wrote: > I have always been sure in my own mind that Vlad's mother was > mentioned in Brokedown Palace. On reviewing names for the Dramatis Personae page at the wikicity, I stumbled across the reference to the one sort of "minor" female character in BP who is a servant at the palace: a woman named Juliska who is the head assistant to the cook (Ambrus the Fat). Since Noish-pa's cat is also named Ambrus, could this be a subtle clue pointing to Juliska as Vlad's mother? Granted, this is a stretch, but the "Mariska-as-Vlad's-Mom" theory seems to be contradicted by Verra's comments in /Issola/, so Juliska is about the only other female candidate we have left (assuming, of course, that Vlad's mother does indeed appear someplace in BP, which is far from certain.) Majikjon