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Notes: TPG ch. 6-8

Gaertk at aol.com Gaertk at aol.com
Wed Jul 3 18:31:22 PDT 2002

[page 59]

Khaavren pays the body bearers (2 Orbs * 4).
Compare to FHYA where he carries the body himself.

"the precision of detail only a Tiassa is capable of"
odd, I'd've thought Lyorns would be more precise.

[page 60]

Love this dialogue

Map: Castlegate perimeter

[page 61]

Pel's partner Athyra?  Nope [page 47]

[page 62]

Map: Street of the Cold Fires, Circle of the Fountain of the
Darr

[page 63]

Map: County Sandyhome
     no military value

"... is now in the possession of the Easterners."
"Yes, yes, in fact, it was a Dzur who led the expedition..."
Huh?  Are only Dzur allowed in Easterner lands?

Map: Pepperfields
     necessary to security of Empire

[page 65]

typo: "It give me ..."

Map: hills of Brambletown district, Street of Ringing Bells

[page 69-71]

Map: the house
     Street of the Glass Cutters, 1 mi from Dragon Gate 
     across from Hammerhead Inn, home of Thorny Rose Army
     behind(?) is temple of Verra, also facing Hammerhead Inn
     further down the street (away from Palace?) private           hospital
     built by Jhegaala merchant
     Early Volanthe (towers, rounded walls, painted           stonework)
     open and airy in front with circular porch
     back enclosed by large twostem bushes
     back shaded by 3 oaks (eq triangle) and sugar maple in           center
     Pel: isolated chamber in back, own door to garden
     Khaavren: second floor room with balcony facing street
     Aerich: narrow room next to K, preferred room
     Tazendra: next to A, part of back wall, tower, kitchen
          stairway
     living room on first floor
     one more sleeping chamber for Srahi
          
Time: house built for retirement which happened in Teckla R.
      merchant died 300 years later
      trees planted at beginning of Athyra Reign

[page 71]

Time: forty years after Revolt of the Livery

one meal a day?  must not be hobbits

Khaavren and Aerich normally wake at 9/9:30 (are they still
on night shifts?), Pel and Tazendra already up

[page 72]

Khaavren better swordsman than Tazendra who had an exclusive
trainer

Srahi wakes in afternoon, makes their meal, they leave to
start their duties at the Palace

[page 73]

Warlord in charge of all military except Lavodes
Sethra resigned when banned from court many years ago 
(Lavode scandal?)

captain-general of Imperial Army, brigadier-general of
Imperial Guard, both vacant

G'aereth: Red Boot Company, sixty or seventy members, no
lieutenants
Lanmarea: White Sash Battalion, 200 members, guards Emperor
(favor from Consort)

Time: brigadier-general of guards vacant for 1000(!) years

[page 74-75]

one third of guard female

[page 75]

Tazendra only one to accept bribes, immediately gambles with
it

[page 76]

Time: three weeks later

[page 78-79]

gender issues

[page 80]

no police since Revolt of the Livery

[page 84]

typo: "not"

[page 85]

Map: klava hole several doors down from Hammerhead Inn

--KG