Which character from BotNS do you identify with most?

Jeff Wilson · 02 Aug 2010, 21:37 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 16:37:59 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: (urth) Which character from BotNS do you identify with most?
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> Possibly, the lure of gaining all that information---as well as the access
> codes that make one the autarch---ensure that anyone who murders the
> incumbent (if he knows about it) would succeed him even if he had no
> intent to do so, thus preserving the succession. A hired assassin could
> become autarch instead of his employer.

Where do the children and farmwives come in?

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