Oh, sod! (In which Una's mun rants about her canon)
I've just finished reading The White Wolf's Son. Noteworthy things:
And here's a bit from The Metatemporal Detective. Note that "Zenith the Albino" = Elric, more or less. I know, it's confusing.
Although she was known to the world as Una Persson, Countess von Bek, Zenith thought of her by another name. He rejoiced inwardly at his good fortune. She was exactly whom he had hoped to meet here. He rose and bowed, then gracefully escorted her to the floor where they joined in the rhythms of the Entropy Tango, that strange composition actually written for one of Countess Una's closest friends. In England she had enjoyed a successful career on the music hall stage. Here she was best known as a daring adventuress.
And on top of that, some contributor to Wikipedia (as of this writing, 1/8) contends that she's actually "Oone" in The Fortress of the Pearl, which would instead make her the Dreamthief, the mother of Elric's children and the great-grandmother of Oonagh von Bek.
*facedesk*
It was much easier, hilariously enough, when I was only using Cornelius canon.
I've managed to retcon in pieces from the Nomad of the Time Streams books, as well as The Dancers at the End of Time, but this is really straining my brain, assuming my conjectures are correct. It would be easier if I could just draw a line in the sand and say "this is what I'm using, and I'm ignoring this", but unfortunately my brain is too precise to allow me to do that comfortably.
So I'm going to finish The Metatemporal Detective and see where that leaves me. And you better believe I'm using the "amnesia" failsafe as my retcon tool of choice. Basically, my reasoning is that she was pulled into the game setting from the Cornelius stories, and was sufficiently absorbed in that particular time stream that the memories of the other time streams and her place in them are only coming back in fits and starts.
Let this be a lesson in making sure that you're up on your canon before RPing a character. No matter what, and no matter if the canon in question comprises dozens of books over multiple decades and is still ongoing. >.<
- A large part of Elric's adventures in the book are presented as having been narrated by Una to Michael Moorcock (a side trip while visiting UT Austin, forsooth).
- While Elric's in 20th c. Mirenburg (in his guise as Count Zodiac), he "wrote the notes he would send to Mrs Persson at her poste restante in Stockholm. He had developed this habit since they first met in the early part of the twentieth century, when they had become good friends, possibly lovers, though Mrs Persson was, as always, discreet about her liaisons."
- And then at the end, the main narrator of the book, Oonagh von Bek, says, "I know it's true, because I heard the parts I didn't experience myself from Una Persson, as she calls herself now, that mysterious adventuress who spends so much of her time in Eastern Europe and never seems to age.
And here's a bit from The Metatemporal Detective. Note that "Zenith the Albino" = Elric, more or less. I know, it's confusing.
Although she was known to the world as Una Persson, Countess von Bek, Zenith thought of her by another name. He rejoiced inwardly at his good fortune. She was exactly whom he had hoped to meet here. He rose and bowed, then gracefully escorted her to the floor where they joined in the rhythms of the Entropy Tango, that strange composition actually written for one of Countess Una's closest friends. In England she had enjoyed a successful career on the music hall stage. Here she was best known as a daring adventuress.
And on top of that, some contributor to Wikipedia (as of this writing, 1/8) contends that she's actually "Oone" in The Fortress of the Pearl, which would instead make her the Dreamthief, the mother of Elric's children and the great-grandmother of Oonagh von Bek.
*facedesk*
It was much easier, hilariously enough, when I was only using Cornelius canon.
I've managed to retcon in pieces from the Nomad of the Time Streams books, as well as The Dancers at the End of Time, but this is really straining my brain, assuming my conjectures are correct. It would be easier if I could just draw a line in the sand and say "this is what I'm using, and I'm ignoring this", but unfortunately my brain is too precise to allow me to do that comfortably.
So I'm going to finish The Metatemporal Detective and see where that leaves me. And you better believe I'm using the "amnesia" failsafe as my retcon tool of choice. Basically, my reasoning is that she was pulled into the game setting from the Cornelius stories, and was sufficiently absorbed in that particular time stream that the memories of the other time streams and her place in them are only coming back in fits and starts.
Let this be a lesson in making sure that you're up on your canon before RPing a character. No matter what, and no matter if the canon in question comprises dozens of books over multiple decades and is still ongoing. >.<