"Joy Nicholson" <joyjnicholson at gmail.com> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 06/15/06 10:37 AM To "Jon_Lincicum at stream.com" <Jon_Lincicum at stream.com> cc dragaera at dragaera.info Subject Re: Multi-jointed fingers >> Verra was revealed to be Aliera's mother near the end of /Phoenix/... So >> it *was* a secret for the first four and a half books of the Vlad >> series... (This could be called the greater Phoneix spoiler, I suppose... >> but it's old enough that it probably doesn't need spoiler warnings.) > >What I meant was: >Is it a secret in the Dragaeran universe? >Sure, Vlad doesn't find out until Phoenix, but probably just because >no one bothered to tell him or thought it mattered. Does the majority >of the House of Dragon, or the Court perhaps, know? It is Official? Morrolan knows. Vlad knows. Sethra knows. Zerika (through the Orb) undoubtably knows. The biggest cincher here is that Paarfi, apparently, knows. (And has written about it (well, around the edges of it, anyway) in historical fiction that is freely available to the masses by Vlad's time.) I think it's safe to say it's not a secret to anyone but "pre-Phoenix" Vlad. Majikjon