Palaemon

thalassocrat at nym.hush.com · 05 Jul 2008, 13:02 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: thalassocrat at nym.hush.com (thalassocrat at nym.hush.com)
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:02:43 -0700
Subject: (urth) Palaemon
Message-ID: <20080705130244.5A209158041 at mailserver6.hushmail.com>

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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