[Dragaera] Dzur spoilers - 17 thoughts

[Davdi Silverrock]

On 8/24/06, Maximilian Wilson wrote:
> [Dzur spoiler territory]

To
it
they
go
and
soundly
fight,
the
live-long
day
from
morn
'till
night,
Fa la la-n-fa,
da-n-da da-n-fa,
lanky down dilly.


> > >On 8/23/06, den wrote:

> > >> Actually, I have a sneaking idea that the kid who delivered Vlad's
> > >> message to Kragar

[snip various speculations and ideations]

>
> But I still think it would be cool for that kid to have some kind of
> significance.
>

The kid might have a thematic significance, rather than being secretly
someone important.

In /Issola/, just before Vlad's famous line about generalizing from
one example, there is this exchange (Teldra has just been discussing
young Issola):

Teldra: "What about young Easterners?"
Vlad: "Brash, cocky, and convinced we can beat anything that walks,
flies, or swims, and that we know all the answers to everything."
Teldra: "Rather like Dzur, then."
Vlad: "I guess.  I'm generalizing [&c]"

Anyway, it seems appropriate that in the book /Dzur/, Vlad should meet
a young Easterner who is as brash as a Dzur (reminding him of himself
at that age), thus demonstrating the generalization of that one
example.

Or something like that.