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. And in saying so, assured another gem that would fall from the mouth
of a human!
10. Otik Sandahl the Innkeeper. I quote not to give merit to what the
innkeeper has said, but to show how petty and unforgiving prejudice can
shape history. We historians strive to be generous; after all, I have forgiven
Otik's watering the beer in the Inn of the Last Home.
feminadiranegat)11 who removed him early from the rough
life of mirrors and exploratory physics, leaving him forever
with a mistrust of mirages (his poems, as well the reader
knows, circle obsessively, skeptically around the image of
foxfire) and an even greater mistrust of simple machines.
Isolated by circumstance, by maternal decision, the lad
found his chief source of delight in the conversations
around him: the retelling of the legends of Krynn we all
remember from childhood, those stories beginning with the
famous phrase, "The elves tell it otherwise, but this is how
it happened"; the recitals of name-histories and genealogies
(it is rumored that young Armavir went sleepless for a
month to hear three genealogies in their entirety, and that he
was "never quite right afterwards");12 but most of all he
enjoyed the gossip, of which his mother was chief author,
editor, and judge
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