Felix Eisen <felixeisen at yahoo.com> 06/29/06 07:44 PM To Jon_Lincicum at stream.com cc Subject Re: What are the obvious hanging plot hooks? >>Makijon writes: >>'Vlad says at one point that he was born in a small fishing village, >>implying the family moved to Adrilankha after his birth. This may be >>somewhat contradicted by Noish-Pa's descriptions of the Revolt of 221 >>(given that this is about the time Vlad was born, and was in South >>Adrilankha), but we have no reliable timetable for this, so it's hard to >>be certain. We also don't know if Vlad was telling the truth about his >>birthplace.' > >Having just read the book wherein this is said (Dragon), I think Vlad was going for sarcasm -- 'I assure you, (military reconnaissance) makes up the sole topic of conversation in the small fishing village I >come from' is the loose quote. > >Of course, Adrilankha -is- a 'small fishing village' ... so to speak. I nearly think I completely agree. My point, mostly, was just that we don't know much about Vlad prior to age 16 (just the brief sketch he provides in /Taltos/, which is really rather sparse on details). Majikjon