[Dragaera] Tukko

[Kris Green via Dragaera]

They're somewhat long winded creatures, known to hibernate through the
winter months.

On 4 January 2017 at 21:22, Vanskyock, Brian E via Dragaera <
dragaera at lists.dragaera.info> wrote:

> Well I read that wrong....
>
> I was thinking "what the hell is a Paarfi Bear?"
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> Scott Schultz via Dragaera
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> Subject: Re: [Dragaera] Tukko
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> I find it noteworthy that the Tukko described by Paarfi bears almost no
> resemblance to the Tukko that is perceived by Vlad.
>
> It's tempting to simply dismiss this as an example of Paarfi's typical
> over-eloquence and tendency to elaborate about things that he theoretically
> has no way of objectively verifying, whereas Vlad's narrative style is more
> typically objective and coldly factual.
>
> It raises the question, though: Does Sethra/Paarfi -the-narrator perceive
> Tukko differently because she has knowledge of his true natre, or is it
> because every person who encounters Tukko perceives him according to his or
> her own personal capacity to perceive him?
>
> Vlad is the sort who would never question his own perception of "Sethra's
> odd servant". Tukko wouldn't be the average topic of conversation for
> guests at Dzur Mountain. I could easily imagine Vlad going years, even
> decades, without ever having cause to wonder about it enough to ask
> Morollan or Aliera, "How do you perceive that person standing over there
> with the tray of drinks?"
>
> It would be interesting to learn whether Vlad's seemingly contradictory
> account of Tukko is so because *every* person's account of him would seem
> to contradict every other person's perception of him.
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