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

[Jon Lincicum]

Jeff wrote:
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>> Maximilian Wilson wrote:
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>>> On 10/23/06, Scott Schultz <scott at cjhunter.com> wrote:
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>>>> For instance - How do we know that Brimford is even alive?
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>>>> All we know in Vlad's time is that Zerika has an Easterner lover. We
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>>>> nothing about this lover except Zerika's admission that the rumor is
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>>>> It's easy to read Paarfi and assume that the two are the same, but
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>>>> all it is; an assumption.
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>>> 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.
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>> Phoenix, Chapter 11, pages 309-310 (omnibus):
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>> "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."
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>> [End Cite]
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>> The way I read this, there are 3 basic possibilities:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Majikjon
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> Unless Paarfi but the Warlock in the story because he thought it was Cool.
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Brust might do that... But Paarfi never would. See the end section of 
FHYA and the conversation about Devera.... ;-)

Majikjon