[Dragaera] the Demon?

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"Casey Rousseau" <casey at the-bat.net> 
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>Mark asked:
>>Was that statement made before or after Sethra Lavode was written?
>
>Shortly after the release of Lord of Castle Black(1).  The explicit
>formulation was made in response to someone who was surprised by the
>identity revelation early in that volume.  I forget whether SL was
>complete at that point.  I'm thinking it was drafted at the least.
>
>Certainly, Steve has left himself plenty of wiggle room. 
>
>(1) http://cracksandshards.com/books.html#table (Thanks to Mark M.)

I'm always amused by the line in /Five Hundred Years After/, where Paarfi 
talks about "Greycat", and dismisses the notion that he is secretly 
Jurabin, or Pel, or anyone else in the novel:

[Cite]

"We now give the reader our word that, in general, if we are withholding 
information, it is only because that information was not then available to 
any of these through whose eyes we are witnessing the unfolding of this 
history; and in specific, Greycat has not and will not appear anywhere in 
these pages under another guise. With this firmly established, let us now 
move on."

[/Cite]

That line always struck me as being aimed at people, in general, and on 
this list, specifically, who like to speculate about who might really be 
whom...

Note that he very carefully words it to allow Greycat to be someone who 
might have appeared in a PREVIOUS novel... 

Majikjon