Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 02/05/06 09:03 PM To Dragaera List <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject Re: Spoiler thread on Brokedown Palace, need to know. >"Taltos" means... well, see "Taltos (legend)" in the Wikipedia. So >since it can also mean "priest-magician", or "shaman", while calling >oneself that is a bit self-inflating, it's nowhere near as incredibly >important as Christ is to Christians. And since Noish-pa is indeed a >skilled witch, perhaps he called himself that as an honest >self-appraisal. Truth in advertising, as it were. Heh. One of my notions that has been building steam in my own mind is that Noish-pa is actually Ambrus the Fat from Fenario. (See http://dragaera.wikicities.com/wiki/Speculation:Ambrus_the_Fat for justifications of this) This could have put him in a unique position to have witnessed the events of /Brokedown Palace/ (Who notices a servant lurking in the background of important events?). Therefore; perhaps Noish-pa (not Cawti) is the actual narrator of BP? Or maybe he collaborated with Cawti? Or just gave her background information as she was writing it by herself? The one knock against the "Noish-pa-as-exclusive-author-of-BP" theory is that he probably wouldn't characterize the Demon Goddess the way it is shown in the book. Of course, the fact that she is *always* called the "Demon Goddess" in BP, and never by name is something that is very much something Noish-pa *would* do. (Of course, other Fenarians are probably the same way when referring to Her.) Another thought that occurs--perhaps it was the banishment of the Demon Goddess that prompted Noish-pa to leave Fenario in the first place? This idea even seems fairly likely, given Noish-pa's reverence for Verra. Majikjon