[evisel]

i was wondering will maerad and cadvan be in the crow since it is mostly about hem?

[Mrs. Cadvan]

I'm leaving for LA for a month this morning, so if I'm a bit absent, do forgive me - I'll try to check in but it may be tricky. So hold your questions until December, when I get back home.

Probably best not to post on this thread for a while then, guys. (aka evisel, bridie, firefall!) :D ;)

[Bridie]

yeah i know mrs.c we were just getting some questions ready for when alison comes back.

[Gemini]

i was wondering will maerad and cadvan be in the crow since it is mostly about hem?
and the answer is *drum rollllll* is the crow complety from hem's point of view or do we see how c+m r doing on their travels,from their point of view?

Hi Pellinor Lover - The events in The Crow take place at the same time as the events in The Riddle - it begins when Hem and Saliman flee Norloch and ends on Midwinter Day. So you already know how Maerad and Cadvan are doing It's been asked.... i have no idea how many times now :D, and sadly, the aswer remains no... how will the Cadvanites get by :eek: :D :rolleyes: ? lol

Maybe we should start up a FAQ's thread?

[Bridie]

good idea. admit it gem your a cadvanite too :p

[Mrs. Cadvan]

yeah i know mrs.c we were just getting some questions ready for when alison comes back.

Well she said hold the questions until December, so maybe you should get them ready in your head rather than building up a huge pile here that will drown the poor lady when she returns. And that would be detrimental now, wouldn't it? :D :eek:

[Bridie]

*runs and hides* it seems i have enraged(is this a word?) the fearsome mrs.cadvan someone please save me before she gets her pitchfork. *not being sarcastic*

detrimental- ok i dont know what this word means can someone tell me?

[Mrs. Cadvan]

Not here, dear. Off-topic, and all that. ;)

[goose-girl]

hi i know i'm not supposed to but l'd like to ask just one question as i'm not on all that often and i might forget otherwise. :p

( actually it is december now, so i am allowed...right??)


Q) If the crow is all about Hem and his elidhu heritage does that mean he has an elidhu name aswell as maerad? and (related question) can he use elidhu powers like shapeshifting as maerad does at the end of the riddle? :)


xxoo goose-girl xxoo

[alison]

Hello all - and thanks Mrs C for keeping the questions in order!

Hi Firefall -

Will we ever find out what happened to Nim, the Jussack who was kind to Maerad in The Riddle? It’s just that I was curious about whether or not he followed her advice and went to Annar.

Firefall, I don't know whether the story as it is has space for things that happen later. I myself rather like Nim and am sure that his story would be interesting; I'm quite sure that his meeting with Maerad has a profound impact on his life, opening it to different possibilities. Who knows, he might be someone to follow up in a later book?

Can you say whatever happened to the man who took Hem to the caves as a baby when Pellinor was sacked (sorry, I can’t for the life of me remember his name; the one who was meant to meet Milana and Maerad in the caves with Hem, when Enkir stopped them on the way)? I can’t remember hearing that he ever died, so I was wondering if we’d find out for sure.

If Hem was captured, I am quite sure that this man (I can't remember his name either, I guess I should go and check) would have been killed.

Were other members of Maerad’s family (grandparents, cousins etc) killed at Pellinor? Are she and Hem the only survivors of the House of Karn?


Bards being such travellers, it seems to me unlikely that every member of the House of Karn would have been at Pellinor when it was sacked. As you know, everyone there was killed, except Maerad and her mother; it was particularly savage. After all, people survived the sack of Jerr-Niken later. I suspect that all of Maerad and Hem's close relatives would have died, but that doesn't mean that there might not be others, aside from the Pilanel relations, still around.

If the crow is all about Hem and his elidhu heritage does that mean he has an elidhu name aswell as maerad? and (related question) can he use elidhu powers like shapeshifting as maerad does at the end of the riddle?

Hi Goosegirl - ahem. Without wanting to give too much away - Hem has entirely different powers to Maerad: the Bards don't see his Gift as anything like as unusual. But it is possible that he might have an Elidhu Name, and certainly his Elidhu heritage comes out strongly in this book.