On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Scott Schultz wrote: > >People on the list will remember other cracks if they recall them; it's my > >sense that the story doesn't hang together well, but I could be biased. > >Even by the Paarfi-as-Dumas view, _FHYA_ couldn't be as wrong as the > >Aliera-related-to-Vlad version. > > Paarfi has the Orb moving to Adron of its own volition even though, as > Paarfi himself later tells us, the Cycle has not turned. Again, Orb-Emperor != Cycle-Emperor as far as we know. > I can't imagine anything Aliera could say that could be more wrong than > that... Aliera, Ms I'm still floating at 500? Can't even remember that revivification is a New Orb effect (confirmed in _Issola_ I think)? > > You might as well just say that Paarfi is the real > authority and that others are unreliable or even liars, Ding ding ding, except I think I said precisely that above. > despite being witnesses to the actual events of the time Says who? And impartial ones? > The real question is "Why would Aliera lie?" To impress Vlad? I hardly think > so. She's plenty proud enough of her heritage without having to dress it up > for a Jhereg/Easterner. Whatever Aliera thought of Adron's plans, she was > never ashamed of him or his actions. Begging the question every which way. > I'm not sure how Paarfi could be considered anything like authoritative, > particularly in comparison to Adron's own daughter. See too many posts in the archives presenting the "authoritative Paarfi" view.