MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 2566 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: other character ideas by =?iso-8859-1?q?Jasmin=20Haviland?= 2) Re: other character ideas by "Layla Voll" 3) Re: [Re:other character ideas] by Natetoact-+AT+-aol.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:23:31 -0700 (PDT) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Jasmin=20Haviland?= To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: other character ideas Message-ID: <20010410202331.79561.qmail-+AT+-web11604.mail.yahoo.com> --- Layla Voll wrote: > Exactly. I can't think of any relationships (other than Teren's marriage) > that ended unhappily with one partner wanting more than the other, which > seems slightly unrealistic -- as they often point out, the Heralds are > human, not saints, and perfectly good, nice people are very capable of > making total hash out of their private lives. What about when Dirk gets played with by that high born chick? You know, he wants her, she wants Kris, Kris doesn't want any part of it? That seemed pretty realistic. Especially Dirk's reaction to it. Sorry about the one liner! Jessie __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 22:00:55 From: "Layla Voll" To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: other character ideas Message-ID: Jasmin writes: >--- Layla Voll wrote: > > > Exactly. I can't think of any relationships (other than Teren's > >marriage) that ended unhappily with one partner wanting more than > the >other, which seems slightly unrealistic -- as they often point > out, the >Heralds are human, not saints, and perfectly good, nice > people are very >capable of making total hash out of their private > lives. > >What about when Dirk gets played with by that high born chick? You know, he >wants her, she wants Kris, Kris doesn't want any part of it? That seemed >pretty realistic. Especially Dirk's reaction to it. Yes, very realistic, but not exactly a relationship, no? I meant the kind of relationship where two people date for a couple of years, possibly even get married, and then something happens and they break up or get divorced. In thinking about it, Elspeth and Skif's "relationship" is pretty close to what I mean, before they find their more permanent significant others: a relationship between two decent people where Skif is interested and Elspeth is not. One other question, to keep this from being a one-line "yes, I kind of agree" message (and yes, I do save up odd questions to tack onto the ends of one-liners): What is Kerowyn's native language? Is it a dialect of Valdemar (or vice versa: is Valdemar a dialect of Jkatha?) I ask because, although Rethwellan and Valdemar are different languages (Kerowyn notes that Talia speaks well at the Rethwellan court, but with a stiffness that betrayed her non-fluency; Elspeth talks about writing to her Uncle Faram to practice her Rethwellan), both Kerowyn and Daren appear to speak Valdemar fluently -- much better than Alberich, for instance. And, while Daren might have learned Valdemar as a useful language for a prince to learn, Kerowyn has no particular reason to learn it, given that she had no reason to ever go to Valdemar (okay, Eldan, eventually, but she and Eldan converse fluently from the beginning). If Jkatha and Valdemar speak the same language, though, then it all makes sense, because Daren would also have to speak it at Tarma and Kethry's school, and they would both be pretty fluent. Okay, finally -- if this is all answered in Winds or Storms, just say so, and I'll find out eventually. Right now I'm reading Magic's Pawn/Promise/Price for the first time, so Winds and Storms will have to come later. Layla _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 23:38:55 EDT From: Natetoact-+AT+-aol.com To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: [Re:other character ideas] Message-ID: <21.a2b8613.28052bcf-+AT+-aol.com> --part1_21.a2b8613.28052bcf_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You're right, I got the details all confused in my mind. I't been almost 3 yrs since I read that. Thanx for the correction! blushing sheep to all Nathyn "Oh, well. She's dead. Let's move on, shall we?"- Willy Wonka --part1_21.a2b8613.28052bcf_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You're right, I got the details all confused in my mind. I't been almost 3
yrs since I read that. Thanx for the correction!

            blushing sheep to all
            Nathyn

"Oh, well. She's dead. Let's move on, shall we?"- Willy Wonka --part1_21.a2b8613.28052bcf_boundary-- ------------------------------ End of MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 2566 **********************************