[Dragaera] Verra's knowledge, Vlad's trip East

Vincent J. Cisneros vincedotcom at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 25 14:09:01 PST 2007


--- Scott Schultz <scott at cjhunter.com> wrote:

> 
> I agree that Verra has her ways of knowing things
> and that knowledge of
> Vlad's ancestry would be incidental knowledge. Heck,
> Noish-pa is one of her
> adherents; he taught Vlad to worship her. She
> wouldn't need to set foot in
> Fenario in order to know most everything worth
> knowing about Vlad's family
> line.
> 
> >By the way, I think people are accidentally
> misleading Vincent
> >Cisneros about Vlad in the East.  /Brokedown
> Palace/ has nothing
> >about it at all--it takes place before our hero is
> born.  However,
> >Vlad briefly mentions in /Athyra/ or /Issola/ or
> both (I forget)
> >that he'd been to the East.  Beyond that we know
> nothing.
> 
> I admit, that I can't make much sense out of the
> paragraph quoted above.
> Jerry, if you're thinking that anyone on the list
> suggested that _Brokedown
> Palace_ was in any way related to Vlad or is a
> chronicle of Vlad's
> adventures in Fenari, that was a misunderstanding.
> It's a separate work from
> the Vladiad and is only recently recognized to be
> "canonical" by Verra's
> off-handed acknowledgement in _Issola_ of the events
> related between its
> covers. "Canonical" is in the eye of the beholder,
> though, as the different
> versions of the story of Fenarr (as told by Vlad,
> Paarfi, and Miklos) show.
> 
> _Brokedown Palace_ takes place at another time and
> place than any of the
> Vlad books. It's only real connection to them is the
> setting. The story
> itself is a stylized fairy tale, much as Vlad's
> stories are a stylized
> hard-boiled detective story and Khaavren's stories
> are stylized French
> Romances.
> 
> _Brokedown Palace_ is noteworthy in relation to the
> Vladiad because it
> provides some basis for speculation about the
> familial origins of both Vlad
> and Cawti. Emphasis on the word "speculation". ;-)
> 


Thanks Guys!!!

Vincent


 
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