[Dragaera] random thoughts on recent (or not) Texts

[Jon Lincicum]

On 11/7/2011 7:11 AM, Alexx Kay wrote:
>> On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, Alexx Kay wrote:
>>
>>> but specific individuals exhibit wide variation.  I think it's safe to
>>> say
>>> that StY has a more... elastic notion of honor than, say, Morrolan.
>> Something she picked up from her namesake, perhaps.  I suspect Sethra's
>> pretty practical, though I don't immediately recall an example.
> In FHYA, she comes to the capitol to investigate Gyorg Lavode's murder,
> despite having been banished from the court.  Later in that volume, she
> has the audacity to suggest to Tortaalik that he abdicate.
>
> In _Taltos_, she does some fairly skeezy manipulation (and, arguably,
> murder) to get Vlad to Dzur Mountain.
>
> These are not exactly the same sort of thing that StY does, but may
> perhaps be taken as influential on StY's character.
>
> Interestingly, there is no clearly documented instance of Sethra Lavode
> *lying*.  She is certainly willing to conceal, obfuscate, and mislead, but
> as far as I can tell, she never tells a direct untruth.
>
> Alexx

How about this from /Dragon/:

"For one thing," said Sethra [Lavode], "we don't know any thieves."

Seems like a pretty direct lie to me.

Majikjon