[Dragaera] two questions about _FHYA_

[Philip Hart]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Jon Lincicum wrote:

>
> My thought was that Noima had instructed the guards to search Aliera's 
> quarters for "something incriminating" and they happened to find the chaos 
> stone... Not that Noima necessarily knew this particular item would be found.

See pg 235 for Sethra thinking the search was directed.  Indeed, it would 
have been counterproductive to search and not find anything.

I have the sense there was another mention of this but I can't refind it.


> (This is somewhat implied during the discussion on the balcony mentioned 
> previously.)

I disagree.



>> Seems out of character to me, but then I find his comments some of the
>> murkier bits of _FHYA_.
>
> Lord Garland was the former "Favorite" of Tortaalik, the one who fought his 
> duels for him. Hence, he is no doubt well versed in swordplay.

A dueler in a riot may be able to do little.  And the end of the Text 
shows Garland dying without striking a blow.

Is he noted as a dueler in _TPG_?


> Perhaps this accounts for the murkiness of the character? Errata introduced 
> both by Paarfi's attempts to conceal, and to foreshadow Greycat's actual 
> identity from the reader?


I wondered whether perhaps SKZB was making it up as he went along
and left Greycat's dialogue obfuscated when cleaning up.

And I still don't understand how Greycat's dialogue is supposed to
be available to Paarfi, who regrets that he can't find where a 
carrriage (?) went after it has become of no interest to the plot 
anyway.  Maybe I'm resistant to these sections because of that.