[Dragaera] [Dzur Spoilers] On Name Cracks

[Jon Lincicum]

Will Frank wrote:
> Also Sprach Davdi Silverrock:
>   
>> On 10/5/06, Will Frank <wmfrank at stwing.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> Here's some spoiler space...
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>>> Tsalmoth
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>
> <snipped, with a Morganti knife>
>   
>> Misleading Kragar about who is Terion's mistress doesn't really help
>> Kragar or Vlad, which is why it makes no sense.
>>     
>
> I think it's Vlad looking out for Kragar, and keeping him from knowing about 
> the sorceress he soul-ate. Especially since Kragar doesn't apparently 
> notice Lady Teldra. Plus, this gives Kragar some distance. Vlad doesn't 
> want to see Kragar get killed--especially not Morganti--for simply 
> associating with him.
>   
If it were Vlad just trying to keep the details out of Kragar's life, 
then why would he mention Crithnak's name at all?

Note, the mistake involved here is not really a misidentifying of 
Crithnak as Triesco, or vice versa, it's mislabeling Crithnak as 
Terion's lover. All the other facts that Vlad and Kragar throw around 
regarding Crithnak are accurate. (Including the critical fact that 
Vlad's actions led to her sister being soul-eaten).

I think you can make a case here that maybe Vlad's memory went south, 
and *he* made a mistake about her identity (especially given how he 
seems to easily forget Triesco's name--as he does when he should be 
looking her up in the Imperial Library) but I don't think there's really 
any way to justify Vlad deliberately misleading Kragar on this point. 
Given how much other damning information he gives to Kragar, there's no 
advantage to be had by Vlad throwing in this as a deliberate falsehood. 
As Davdi says, it makes no sense.

Majikjon