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So I picked up The Book of Jhereg yesterday and read it. Yeah, the main character was good, not nearly as overwhelmingly powerful or smart as Jason or Tarrin, but good none the less. My only complaint is that the book kind of ends on a downer, but I don't want to ruin the book for anybody else who ...

I hadn't really thought about it in these terms before, but there are some similarities between Tarrin and Steven Brust's character Vlad Taltos. Vlad doesn't quite fit in because he is a human in a world dominated by a race that is sort of a cross between reptiles and humans. Over time he becomes a...

I remember being intrigued enough by the skybands that I asked my astronomy professor about them, and it seems that keeping them up on anything but a young rocky planet would require (easily available) divine intervention. I've assumed that the skybands are a ring system, a la Saturn, above the equ...

Perhaps, I haven't been paying close enough attention in my two times through the series, but I don't remember seeing an explanation of who made the Firestaff and why. I have to assume that something that powerful was created for a reason - who would go to all that trouble just because? I'm pretty ...

According to J-Man5: Tarrin's purpose...well, I won't reveal that. But I'm sure that you can figure it out if you think about it. Wink I could certainly be wrong, but I've been assuming that Tarrin's purpose is akin to fire in a sequoia grove... and Niami is looking for a little yang. :wink: bbobb

Lochar wrote:The GoG has a balance of male and female for each of the planes.

Does this have to be the case? Did Ayise have to create Shellar? The Pyrosian GoG doesn't seem to have to a female counterpart.

bbobb