[Dragaera] The Unrecorded Cracks

[Davdi Silverrock]

On 2/13/07, Steve Rapaport wrote:


>
> Vlad's contract on Crithnak is useful from a "get this woman off my back"
> point of view but doesn't advance his cause at all.

Since at least one of Vlad's causes is to not get his ass killed, I
think he would disagree with you on that point.

>  He would have been much better off, from a Jhereg politics point of view,
> eliminating Terion's mistress.

And yet, I think he managed to work things out anyway; Crithnak's
death served as an emphasis that Vlad was not without deadly
resources, a vital point during Jhereg negotiation.

>
> Triesco's motivations in the final scene for wanting to see Vlad dead would
> have made far more sense coming from Crithnak.  Triesco had nothing against
> Vlad personally, but would have been furious about his proposal to displace
> Terion on the council.  If she had simply said "no deal" instead of wailing
> on the revenge theme, that would have made sense.

You do have a point, there.

The only thing I can think of is that perhaps Triesco did in fact have
a closer relationship to Crithnak and her sister than Vlad realized
(perhaps she was another sister, or a cousin)?

> It's as if somewhere in the middle of the book, Triesco and Crithnak somehow
> switched names.
>

Hm.  Something to ponder.