[Dragaera] The Desecrator [spoilers]

[Davdi Silverrock]

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Davdi Silverrock wrote:
> A few thoughts, here and there.
>
> Spoilers ahoy.
>


>
> Shout-outs, references, in-jokes:
>

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> There seemed something familiar about the illusionary man "wielding"
> Nightslayer.  Elric of Melnibone would have been somewhat appropriate,
> but the description fails utterly to match.  Blue eyes and and brown
> hair could be anyone, really, but the golden skin seems like a detail
> meant to reference something.  I don't know what, though.
>

Of course, the most likely reference is a Zelazny one. And it did
occur to me that the most appropriately bloodthirsty of Corwin's
brothers is probably Julian -- and I see, checking the obvious place,
that Julian is portrayed as having "dark hair hanging long, blue eyes
containing neither passion nor compassion."

That still leaves "His skin was a shade of gold I’d never seen
before", though.  But then it occurred to me -- could "a shade of
gold" in fact mean ...  *amber*?

If that was the intent, then I do believe SKZB deserves *such* a smack.