Vodalus & the Old Autarch

Mr Thalassocrat · 10 Aug 2010, 08:21 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: thalassocrat08 at gmail.com (Mr Thalassocrat)
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:51:23 +0930
Subject: (urth) Vodalus & the Old Autarch
Message-ID: <AANLkTimH7=eNeHcti+wAWMy9Vt=-NVFNWsBoEm5NTO6- at mail.gmail.com>

Recent posts about what Sev might or should have discovered about his
mother/sister/himself at the end of BOTNS remind me of something which has
bugged me for a long time: How come Vodalus didn't know that his agent was
actually the old Autarch?

Thecla-in-Sev recognises the old Autarch; his profile is on the coinage;
clearly his appearance isn't some kind of big secret.

But Vodalus doesn't make the conenction. How likely is that?

I lean towards thinking this is just a narrative glitch, because I can't
think up a text-based explanation for it.

Yes, it's easy enough to think up stories along the lines of Vodalus never
having been at court, never meeting with old-Autarch-as-agent in the
presence of anybody who has, not drawing the connection from the coinage -
and so on. But this seems very thin to me - does anybody have anything
better?
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