(urth) The Sorcerer's House Questions (*Major Spoilers*)

Mr Thalassocrat thalassocrat08 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 23 14:37:53 PDT 2010


On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Mr Thalassocrat
> <thalassocrat08 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > But it's Bax who makes a will in favour of George, and Bax who
> "disappears".
>
> According to the message from George, they both make a will in favor
> of each other. Bax has a good reason to want to replace George and not
> just kill him: there will be zero questions asked this way (notice
> that the final letter's lame explanation of Bax just going off into
> faerie for no stated reason, forever, apparently is completely
> successful - the endnote presents 'George' as having no trouble
> whatsoever managing Bax's estate, George's estate, or having Bax
> declared dead).
>
> > Everything about the replacement is under Bax's control, really, if he
> can
> > get George to come to him, set George up to be killed, dispose of the
> body &
> > get Millie to accept him (Bax) as "George". Faerie isn't an essential
> > element for this scheme.
>
> Neither twin seems to be especially in control. Both need to kill each
> other. Bax *might* be able to forge George's signature, but he still
> needs George dead, and vice versa. I don't really follow what you're
> saying here - if there's any advantage accruing to Bax, isn't that
> just further evidence that Bax did kill & replace George?
>
>

Sure - we're agreed that Bax killed & replaced George. The discussion (I
thought) was about whether Bax planned it all along. I think he might have.
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