I missed Alleras and false Arya and the alchemist :( In my defense, it's been *ages* since I read the earlier books, so there's no way I would've recognized the "alchemist," assuming it's indeed him. But that did mean that I was probably rather more confused in the prologue and epilogue than I should have been, though the overall nature of the happenings was, of course, pretty clear. I also simply assumed fake!Arya wasn't anyone we'd seen before, though, of course, GRRM doesn't do throwaway lines very often, so that was silly of me. And Alleras... well, that explains where the awesome comes from, I guess. (Not that there's been a lot of explicit awesome so far -- you just know it's there. And now I know why :)
(I did follow the link in your entry and then poked around a bit, but actually got to the FAQ first via a parallel path, through a questions somebody asked in the asoiaf.)
The next generation of d'Angelines is a lot less self-absorbed (I think it helps that many of the significant players are half-breeds, spent significant amount of time being tortured, and other such things).
That would make a lot of sense, and I'm glad that's the case! I've only read a few pages into Scion now, but already I see what you are talking about -- I like Imri's voice a lot better than Phedres, and he seems to have a definite sense of perspective, about Terre d'Ange and about himself, the lack of which incredibly irritated me in Phedre. Yay for non-annoying narrators!
(I did follow the link in your entry and then poked around a bit, but actually got to the FAQ first via a parallel path, through a questions somebody asked in the asoiaf.)
The next generation of d'Angelines is a lot less self-absorbed (I think it helps that many of the significant players are half-breeds, spent significant amount of time being tortured, and other such things).
That would make a lot of sense, and I'm glad that's the case! I've only read a few pages into Scion now, but already I see what you are talking about -- I like Imri's voice a lot better than Phedres, and he seems to have a definite sense of perspective, about Terre d'Ange and about himself, the lack of which incredibly irritated me in Phedre. Yay for non-annoying narrators!
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