[Dragaera] Kragar - SPOILERS

[Scott Schultz]

>Okay, so I was waiting to post this until after my wife read _Dzur_ and I 
>could talk with her about it without spoiling the book.

>This should be fair warning---Thar be spoilers here!

>_____________________________

Pretty much everything I've ever wondered about Kragar is already documented 
at the Lyorn Records under Speculation:Kragar.

http://dragaera.wikia.com/wiki/Speculation:Kragar

I do find the idea that the animosity between Aliera and Kragar is some kind 
of put-on to be mildly interesting, but with no evidence to support it or 
explain it, I can't really think of it as anything more than an amusing 
thought experiment.

Try this speculation on for size - As depicted in Dzur, Mario is not just 
late middle-aged, he's terribly old-fashioned. Almost as if he's been out of 
touch with civilization for a long time. If we figure that Morollan was born 
shortly after the beginning of the Interregnum and that, due to Aliera's 
"hibernation", that she and Morollan are roughly the same physical age, then 
Mario ought to be just  a little bit older. In Easterner terms, where 
Morollan and Aliera are in their mid-late twenties, Mario ought to be in his 
late thirties; maybe just turning forty. The Interregnum lasted only a few 
hundred years; not even a full generation for a Dragaeran. Mario ought to be 
older but not, IMO, as old as he appears to be in _Dzur_.

Sethra punished Sethra the Younger by sending her to another dimension where 
time runs faster than it does on Dragaera and giving her a job that would 
take years to accomplish. (Writing "I won't mess with internal Empire 
politics" in the sand ten million times or some such.) When she returned, a 
short time had passed for the Empire even though a couple of years had 
passed for her.

It may be that Mario and Kragar first became acquainted due to some 
adventure in which Kragar assisted Mario, something went horribly wrong, and 
Mario ended up dumped in an alternate universe for 1000 years until he was 
rescued shortly after Aliera's re-corporation. Aliera truly loves Mario and 
therefore sees past his current age to his heart but she still hates Kragar 
for robbing her of her beautiful young man that she remembers from the final 
days of Dragaera City. If Kragar's actions vis-a-vis Mario also resulted in 
his expulsion, so much the better her reasons for despising him.

If this theoretical mishap resulted not just in treason but in Kragar's 
acquisition of his "unoticability", then it might be all the more reason for 
House Dragon to expel him. Treason is bad enough, but when the traitor is 
able to walk into your house and rifle through your personal files without 
you noticing then he becomes too dangerous to allow anywhere near your 
House. The only question is why just expel him when a death sentence seems 
like a more expedient solution? Kragar would have had to have some hold over 
the House leadership that prevented them from accusing him before the Orb 
and having him sent to the Star.