Glad to hear from you, Mouseguru! And what fun to have someone else in the household who enjoys QT ... but which of you is going to read TaT first?!? Regarding Nahuseresh/Erondites/Attolia, I had always taken this as an example of how Nahuseresh completely ignores and dismisses any abilities on the part of Attolia herself. She is a woman, "easily led", he cannot even conceive that she might have taken any part in planning how to secure her throne. Certainly, Nahuseresh's views here contrast with Irene's own account later. But, you do have a point that the house of Erondites has changed head quite quickly within Attolia's reign, given that the present sons are older than Gen. So maybe a case of treason. Snakes and weasels, after all...
LOL, WRT the new book, we've already come to the conclusion that we may have to buy a hard copy and an e-copy at the same time and then we can read at the same time. Or, if we're disciplined, I will get to read while she is in school and then she'll get the book in the evening. She's just thrilled that the release date is after the last of her AP tests are over :) It is very fun to have someone to obsess with, especially as we don't usually have the same taste in books.
I of course assume that Attolia did her own plotting and that Nahuseresh is mistaken :) but just wondered if his even coming up with her name implied that he was a supporter of hers in the beginning. The biggest point against my theory I would think is that Erondites is still a baron, since it was common to disinherit the families of traitors.
Welcome! Good question...I wonder if it's just a case of a power-hungry baron. If his father had been treasonous and executed because of it, I think that would have been mentioned somewhere in later descriptions of the Erondites family, especially once Gen is on the scene in KoA. More likely, I think, that it's just another case of clueless Narhuserfish not having any idea what's really going on.
I never noticed that before! However I think it's mostly just power hungry Erondites; it makes sense that the current one didn't just come up into power, they're obviously an old, powerful house. Perhaps the elder Erondites thought he could gain influence by being an advisor and either that didn't work our his son thought it'd been ineffective or something.
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Regarding Nahuseresh/Erondites/Attolia, I had always taken this as an example of how Nahuseresh completely ignores and dismisses any abilities on the part of Attolia herself. She is a woman, "easily led", he cannot even conceive that she might have taken any part in planning how to secure her throne. Certainly, Nahuseresh's views here contrast with Irene's own account later.
But, you do have a point that the house of Erondites has changed head quite quickly within Attolia's reign, given that the present sons are older than Gen. So maybe a case of treason. Snakes and weasels, after all...
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LOL, WRT the new book, we've already come to the conclusion that we may have to buy a hard copy and an e-copy at the same time and then we can read at the same time. Or, if we're disciplined, I will get to read while she is in school and then she'll get the book in the evening. She's just thrilled that the release date is after the last of her AP tests are over :) It is very fun to have someone to obsess with, especially as we don't usually have the same taste in books.
I of course assume that Attolia did her own plotting and that Nahuseresh is mistaken :) but just wondered if his even coming up with her name implied that he was a supporter of hers in the beginning. The biggest point against my theory I would think is that Erondites is still a baron, since it was common to disinherit the families of traitors.
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I never noticed that before! However I think it's mostly just power hungry Erondites; it makes sense that the current one didn't just come up into power, they're obviously an old, powerful house. Perhaps the elder Erondites thought he could gain influence by being an advisor and either that didn't work our his son thought it'd been ineffective or something.
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