[Dragaera] The Unrecorded Cracks

[Steve Rapaport]

The one from /Dzur/  about the identity of Terion's mistress actually
worried me more when I reread /Dzur/.

Not only is it a crack, it's one of those cracks that gets bigger the more
you try to plaster it over.

Try it and see.

If Terion's mistress is really Triesco, as originally stated, then the whole
story makes sense up until Vlad's conversation with Kragar.  Then you have
to assume that Vlad was half-asleep, or lying, when Kragar deduces that
Crithnak was the mistress and Vlad agrees.

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

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.

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

-- 
\Steve