[Dragaera] Lavodes

[David Dyer-Bennet]

On 8/22/06, Casey Rousseau <casey at the-bat.net> wrote:
> Bryan Newell writ:
>
> > I had seen this before, but what caught my eye this time
> > were the comments about the Lavodes.  Toward the bottom,
> > Reen (Steve's ex-wife, I believe) says, "Oh, and don't let
> > Mark give you any grief about LaVode versus Lavode. Both
> > Aliera and Sethra used a cap V for signatures, so at least
> > you are in good company."
> >
> > Aliera Lavode?
> >
> > Does anyone know what she is referring to?
>
> AFB at the moment and Amazon only has the omnibus edition* available for
> Search Inside, but the acknowledgements and/or About the Author page for
> Jhereg explained that (or maybe Steve has elaborated on said tidbits to
> the effect that) the book was inspired by an RPG campaign.  Reen
> undoubtedly referred to the PC Aliera as opposed to the Aliera found so
> far in the text(s).

Yes, there's quite a lot of prehistory to the Dragaera in the books.
Some book characters are fairly directly derived from player
characters (I have one friend who got Jhereg autographed by the people
who played the characters carried over into that book).  I played in
only one incarnation of the gaming universe, when Steven was running
it.

When *I* was playing there, Aliera (Reen's character) was a god, and
"god calls" sometimes involved the telephone.  My character died in a
duel with her, in fact.

> * In the omnibus, the copyright page has: This one's for Liz.  The
> author (that's me) would like to thank Steven Bond, Reen Brust, the late
> Lee Pelton, John Robey, John Stanley, and, especially, Adrian Morgan,
> who started it all.

I'd forgotten Lee was involved, he was in incarnations before mine, we
didn't overlap in the gaming group.
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