[Dragaera] [Orca spoiler] Rereading Taltos...

[Ray Lee]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>wrote:

> > Orca spoiler mentions here.
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> > I was amazed, especially in Taltos, at the number of clear
> > hints at Kiera's
> > identity.  Not only was Steve planning this from the
> > start, he left clues
> > for us.  Loiosh wonders if he's met Sethra before,
> > Vlad notices that Kiera's
> > eyes are really old (twice), Kiera shows up in Ferenc's
> > coincidentally
> > knowing stuff that only Sethra should know, (and Vlad later
> > realizes that
> > her presence there was no coincidence, but doesn't follow
> > through on why she knows all that...)
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> > And Kiera's voice is described as low and velvety, just a
> > couple pages
> > before Sethra's is described as low and silky.
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> Although I didn't notice all that, my feeling after
> /Orca/ was that Steve had decided this between
> /Jhereg/ and /Taltos/. For instance, why would Sethra
> be available in /Jhereg/ as Kiera but not as Sethra?
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Then you have to come up with an alternate explanation for how Kiera and
Sethra know each other well enough to have Sethra resurrect Vlad after Kiera
found his body laying in a gutter. And that happens within the first 30 or
50 pages of _Jhereg_ IIRC.