[Dragaera] A slip of the tongue...

[Philip Hart]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote:

> Tazendra has never been stupid, she always knows the right questions to
> ask, even if the answers are not as immediately evident to her as they are
> to Pel or Khaavren. She could probably work everything out herself, she
> simply defers to the others when she is around them, since being clever is
> not her rôle in the group.


I don't think that's really consistent with Paarfi's account, but it's
hard to tell if that's just Paarfi giving his student a fond ribbing.

And certainly it's no shame to have a duller chin than Khaavren etc.


One might perhaps argue that _TPG_ is about different types of
intelligence - Khaavren's brilliant intuition, Pel's interpersonal
skills, Aerich's general or perhaps Holmesian smartness, Tazendra's -
uhh - idiot-savantism?