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Ahoy there, matey! I'm no longer "nuked_for_import"!

I'll fire off a The Orc King question, to start. In case you haven't noticed yet, I've been a little ticked off with the whole Many-Arrows invasion of the North. I want to lead the "Obould Must Die!" bandwagon. "[A]ll Obould deserves is an axe to the skull, a hammer to the chest, a scimitar to the gut, a mace to the toes, and an arrow to the butt!"

A lot of that was based on my focus on factual information available to our heroes, as opposed to Drizzt's and Alustriel's apparent faith in a new turn in the war. Bad word, that--"faith"--in my dictionary.

Q: So could you maybe explain it in a way that could break through my crusty exterior? Or does one simply--*gulp*--gotta have a faith, a faith, a faith?

(And thanks again for that other matter, whichever way the wind blows . . . )

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Hey, Beast, like I said, I would be fine with that if AE didn't act like a much younger kid when he was sold to the caravan by his mother.

But I don't recall him acting young at the time he was sold. Sure, he was sleeping on the dinner table a few months before that, which certainly made him sound small in size. But when he was sold, he just repeatedly asked his mother questions, to no avail. Maybe the closest thing I could think of that made him seem young when sold was that he called her "Mama-hal", which sounds kinda childish to me. But hey, I can chalk that up to him being from a different culture, and not necessarily him being really really young, there.

The fact that some of the events related in TTL were a fantasy created by AE himself in order to survive doesn't mean there can be some elements of truth in it, like his age at the moment.

Right. A person can misremember some things because of psychological trauma while still remembering other things perfectly well.

Maybe he chose to remember himself leaving Memnon at age nine in "TTL" because it made him feel more proud that he was supposedly able to survive on the streets of Calimport even from that young of an age. Maybe lowering his age in his mind just helped to prop up his ego that much more.

That line in RotP could just be a mistake easily fixed in later editions OR, as far as we know, both could be wrong.

True. Certainly could be. And that would take an easy-enough fix, too.

At any rate, it's something that either one of us probably would've caught and quizzed Bob about before sending it to the printer. We would've pressed for just a little more info to rectify the apparent inconsistency.

Regardless, because we're told that the flute has caused Artemis to confront the truth, that still makes me think that ROTP's version of events is the correct one, and not "TTL".

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Anyway, while you are it, wasn't there another matter we had agreed you were going to ask RAS on the next interactive thread? I believe it was about or related to your interpretation of RAS's previous reply to me about the sacrifice of third living sons. I honestly don't remember exactly and I don't have the time atm to search the old threads, knock yourself out.

Yeah, but let's just saddle Bob with one controversy at a time, woman!



And I only suggested that "somebody" or the collective "we" should run that past him--not "I".

Besides, I have more confidence that I'm right when it comes to this issue (Enteri's age), so that other one can wait!

EDIT: Aw, Hells. Here is the <old thread>. Basically, Bob, the question was why third living drow sons are killed. The majority concensus seemed to be that it simply is always done--they're always killed. But my response was that that is not a reason why, but merely a time when. So I theorized that they are killed in order to secure or maintain Lloth's favor in some house agenda (especially inter-house rivalries), and cited all sorts of quotes from the novels and the sourcebooks to back that up. The majority seemed to think it was simply because it was a custom or tradition. Might the answer be that they do it for Lloth's blessing, and because it has worked in the past, it has thenceforward become a custom or tradition? Maybe some historical anecdote could explain both the practical reason for it and the traditional status that it has now attained within drow culture.