(urth) Palaemon
thalassocrat at nym.hush.com
thalassocrat at nym.hush.com
Sat Jul 5 06:02:43 PDT 2008
Trying to make up a Palaemon story is like squeezing blood from a
stone, but I guess there's a couple more pieces of data which might
be relevant.
We can infer that he was in the same general neighborhood as the
Pelerines at the time he punished Winnoc, around ten years before
Sev's birth. After the punishment, Winnoc searches for a group to
belong to, and soon ends up with the Pelerines.
At that time, it's plausible that Catherine would have been a
Pelerine postulant. Eg: If my Catherine = Ouen's sister story is
right, she would have been around 13 years old then (born ~41 years
before Sev meets old boatman, when Sev is ~18). If I'm wrong, a ~13
year old Catherine is still plausible.
We know from Cyriaca that Pelerine postulants could be about this
age.
I think it's a fair guess that the place was Liti, down south along
the river. Eata's story in UOTNS tells us that foreign-sailing
caravels departed from there; Winnoc was thinking of signing on a
ship like that; Palaemon little glitch about Sev's destination,
thinking for a moment that it was to the south.
Liti of course was Burgundofora's destination with her captain
lover, after betraying Sev.
Dunno what, if anything, all this means ...
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