[Dragaera] Favorite Potential Crossover Character (A Poll)

[Ken Koester]

Sumner, Charles wrote:

>Ken Koester wrote:
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>>Erzsébet of Catspirit Wood wrote:
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>>>Well, and Athos dies in _The Vicomte de Bragelonne_, so presumably 
>>>Aerich has to die at the end of _The Viscount of Adrilankha_.
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>>As does Raoul, Porthos &, indeed, D'Artagnan.  The parallels are not 
>>necessarily exact, of course.
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>To be technical D'Artagnan dies in the epilogue, which is set many years after the events of _The Vicomte de Bragelonne_, so having Khavvren still around in Vlad's time isn't breaking the parallel. 
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And the epilogue is part of the story, also to be technical.  Not so 
many years elapse, only 5-8.  The parallels get broken in a number of 
ways:  D'Artagnan has no wife, for example.  It wouldn't be as 
interesting a story if it was just a straight copy of Dumas, after all; 
part of the charm is in seeing how similar characterizations & very 
broadly similar situations lead to a different (but organic) plot.  
Still, I don't think Dumas can tell us anything about whether Papa Cat 
is still going strong or not. . . .

Snarkhunter