[Dragaera] [Issola, Dzur, Orca spoilers] GWs and aging (was: A Devera thread)

[Jeff]

> Maximilian Wilson wrote:
> > On 10/23/06, Scott Schultz <scott at cjhunter.com> wrote:
> >
> >> For instance - How do we know that Brimford is even alive?
> >>
> >> All we know in Vlad's time is that Zerika has an Easterner lover. We
know
> >> nothing about this lover except Zerika's admission that the rumor is
true.
> >> It's easy to read Paarfi and assume that the two are the same, but
that's
> >> all it is; an assumption.
> >>
> >
> > The wiki cites Laszlo as still being alive in /Phoenix/.
> > http://dragaera.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Laszlo I don't have a copy to hand
> > to know exactly what it says.
> >
> Phoenix, Chapter 11, pages 309-310 (omnibus):
>
> [Cite]
>
> "Just speculating on rumors, Your Majesty."
> "Ah. About an Eastern lover?"
> "Um, yeah."
> "It's true," she said. "His name is Laszlo. He isn't my lover because he
> is an Easterner, nor despite it. He is my lover because I love him, and
> he is an Easterner because that is the house in which his soul resides."
>
> [End Cite]
>
> The way I read this, there are 3 basic possibilities:
>
> 1) This is the same guy.
> 2) Paarfi got The Warlock's real name wrong, or else forgot that
> Easterners are short-lived (putting him in the story even though he
> wasn't really around back then), or somehow otherwise messed up his
> facts as related in /Viscount of Adrilankha/
> 3) That Paarfi's Laszlo and the Laszlo from /Phoenix/ are two different
> people with the unlikely coincidence of both being lovers of Zerika, and
> both having the same name.
>
> To me, the most likely seems to be the first one--as Paarfi, despite his
> faults, seems unlikely to have made errors of the scope to make #2 very
> plausible, and #3 isn't very likely no matter how you look at it.
>
> Majikjon
> _______________________________________________


Unless Paarfi but the Warlock in the story because he thought it was Cool.

jeff