[Dragaera] Dragaera Digest, Vol 92, Issue 12

Sun Oct 26 06:03:05 PDT 2014

Supposition:  perhaps the last book involves Vlad dying and is done in a
different narrative voice, since Vlad isn't there to recount his exploits.
If that's so, one wonders who would be chosen for the honour; there are
many good guesses, but my money's on either Kragar, who would have been
closely involved with Vlad, if not with the events in question, to know
enough to recite the tale; or Vlad Norathar, for obvious reasons. Remember,
this person not only has to have known Vlad (and well) but also be
permitted by Sethra to use the black box that Vlad has used to record his
adventures.  Which, imho, leans it towards Vlad, if I had to choose one of
the two above.

I think Sethra would be out as narrator because she's Sethra.  Devera
because she's ...not really all there the way you'd have to be to tell a
story.  The Dragaerans because they're too noble.  Cawti probably because
she'd be not involved enough. A Serioli would be too alien, I think.

Regards,

Jon Carey, B.A.(Hon), CHRP

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> Greetings! I've been lurking for some time, but haven't felt able to post
> until now because I hadn't read all the relevant books, but I think I have
> now managed to catch up.
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> Here are a few thoughts about _Hawk_:
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> 1. I was disappointed, but not really surprised, to find that Paarfi was
> not in this book. I _was_ surprised to find that Vlad Norathar?s porcelain
> hawk from _Iorich_ was not in it; when I read that passage I had supposed
> it was a set-up for _Hawk_.
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> 2. Vlad can?t have been killed _immediately_ after the end of the story,
> since he has time to dictate it. But the odds on his survival seem to be
> diminishing. One wonders how close we are to the end of the saga: there are
> five books to go, but some of them at least are likely to be flashbacks.
> Indeed, I think we have been given a hint about where _Vallista_ fits in;
> and there are plenty of events earlier in Vlad?s career that we would like
> to know more about.   So it may be that we are now quite close to the final
> conflict.
>
>
> 3. Vlad refers to Cawti as his ex-wife, which I don?t think he has ever
> explicitly done before. This raises questions about how divorce works in
> Dragaera. I do wonder if they have marriages by habit and repute, and, as
> the converse of that, divorces by habit and repute ? i.e. once two people
> stop living together and giving themselves out as married, they are no
> longer married. This would of course mean that on some occasions it might
> be uncertain whether they were in fact married or not.
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>
>  4. On a related note, who is Deragar?s mother?
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> 5. Vlad seems to have met the Warlock between _Iorich_ and now. Talking of
> which, has he actually used the word ?warlock? before? Paarfi uses it in a
> way which suggests it might be simply an equivalent of ?witch?, but Vlad?s
> use seems to imply that it is not so. Is it perhaps the equivalent for
> witches of ?wizard? for sorcerers?
>
>
> 6. Will we see Asyavn again?
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> 7. There seem to be a couple of retcons; we get an explanation of
> invisibility which makes it clear why it is not as universally helpful as
> one might think; and it?s suggested that Vlad, when wearing his amulet,
> cannot get the time from the Orb unless he is very close to it.
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