{Firstly, some stuff left off of previous Notes:
Since we aren't given any months, I'll use the seasons for
dates}
[page 15]
Time: Aerich and Tazendra meet Pel previous day (fifth of
spring)
[page 17]
Time: K, A, and T begin coach trip to DC on morning spring 7
[page 20]
Time: stop for afternoon meal (spring 7)
[page 24]
Time: still enroute to DC (spring 8)
{now for the current stuff}
[page 25]
Time: arrive in DC in morning (spring 9)
[page 26]
Idyllic School of architecture
Map: no stables or wooden buildings near Palace
The Campaigner (inn) in this area
Pel is small
[page 27-28]
Description of Pel, sword with ruby
[page 29]
Time: Pel's cloak ready 2 hours after noon (spring 9)
[page 29-30]
Time: Imperial Palace
earliest version built First Cycle
begun late in reign of Tsalmoth Emperor Faarith I
finished near end of 900 year reign of Vallista
Emperor Jamiss I
[legend] Faarith crushed by masonry while installing
throne
[page 30]
Time: construction of forts along [then] Eastern border
during Jamiss' reign
Time: Great Houses begun with Kieron the Younger (Dragon,
Cycle 2) building G. House Phoenix for Zerika II,
maybe as bribe
other Houses built during Lyorn-Hawk reigns, doors
added to Palace facing Houses
Map: if exit Palace through {House} Door, will be on Street
of {House} with Great House of {House} to your left
Great Houses form Imperial Circle
Time: Palace built before first Idyllic/Realist split
Treatise on Palace architecture by Mistress Lethria
[page 31]
Map: Palace, final form
original building mere nucleus: throne room, personal
chambers, kitchens, few small audience chambers
nine stories, hundreds of stairways, thousands of
windows, four indoor gardens and arboreta, 12
major indoor baths, 65 towers, 27 minor domes,
3 major, nine(9) libraries!
full courtyards at each Door, four story wing for each
House (with minister)
"the most bleeding indefensible structure it has ever
been my duty to occupy" --Undauntra I (what Cycle?)
Dragon Wing = war; Iorich = law; Central Palace = Imperial
matters
Guards in Dragon Wing
Map: they have to walk around Palace to find Street of the
Dragon
[page 32-33]
Map: layout of Imperial Guard quarters (too much to type in)
[page 34]
"The Count of Shaltre, Marquis of Deepsprings, Baron of--"
(of what?) [...] "a chief advisor"
[page 35-36]
job interview (this scene would be interesting to film)
[page 39]
Map: on way back to Chreotha tailor (The Campaginer), pass 3
swordsmiths, after third one, Aerich spots another on
unnamed street between Street of the Dragons and Street
of the Seven Trees
Should "Dragons" be plural? See page 31. I suppose it
could be ambiguous, ie "Fish Street"
[page 40]
Aerich knows what he wants
I don't know much about swords (what I do know comes from
reading fantasy), but that description sounds really odd.
Wouldn't you normally want the balance closer to the tip?
Unless you intend to only use it to pierce, in which case
you wouldn't want a wide, double-edged blade.
Note this "sword" has the same length blade as the "dagger"
Vlad is given in _Issola_.
[page 41]
sword made while they wait
Time: eat meal at The Campaigner while waiting for cloaks
to be done
[page 42-43]
history of G'aereth
[page 42]
Time: 17th Cycle
Jhegaala Empress Viodonna VI
Island Wars
Athyra Cherova III
Lavode scandal
[page 43]
Time: two more days of festivities (counting that night)
Intro to Imperial Laws
[page 44]
Time: Pel completed his "test"(?) two days ago (spring 7)
Pel got from Newmarket to DC in less time than the
others took
Pel then waited two days before getting his uniform
Time: first partol starts 3 hours from now(when?), ends at
dawn
report the next day (spring 10), K at this hour, then
T, A, P spaced 1 hour apart
[page 48]
"I should be honored." "Yes."
Map: Street of the Nine Pleasures
[page 49]
Map: public fountain near Maretta's House
[page 52]
Khaavren is from Sorannah, not Shallowbanks
[pape 56]
Khaavren's father was last Count Shallowbanks
[page 56-57]
Where did Paarfi get all that detail on Frei's injuries?
--KG