[Dragaera] Less than 17 comments on _FHYA_

[Philip Hart]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, John Dallman wrote:

> In article <Pine.SOC.4.64.0707292248340.2989 at flora03.slac.stanford.edu>,
> philiph at slac.stanford.edu (Philip Hart) wrote:
>
>> 5. The last word on page 361 (ppb), "some", is very interesting
>> in context - it refers to Adron, Aerich, Aliera, and Sethra,
>> "some of whom live even as we write these words".
>
> Well, Adron is generally believed to be dead. The fact that his
> personality still exists in some way in the Lesser Sea of Chaos is
> something known to few, since Aleria discovers it during Issola. Some
> might think this counts against Sethra-as-Paarfi;

Some might, rashly, think ...

> I reckon if that were what's going on, she'd hardly give away 
> confidential information.

Right.


> Aerich is dead, if Paarfi is writing after the events of tVoA. I see no
> reason why Aleria should not still be alive by the time Paarfi is
> writing, and Sethra is not dead as such; Paarfi's pedantry is not
> unlimited.


I think "some" suggests that Aliera survives into Norathar's reign.
There's of course the general translation issue and the quibbling
on "live" that you note.