jsburbidge wrote:Graydon wrote:(Maybe the younger brother/heir. But I'm going to go with Emperor.)
I'm guessing that, what with coincidence being minimal around Champions, that he's the young boy Bahzell rescued from Baron Dunsahnta, who had his chest pretty thoroughly carved up.
Oh, that's a good one. I didn't think of that. Though that opens the question of where the unsettling skills come from; that kid didn't seem to be in prospect of unusual degrees of training, though I can suppose they wound up training with mages, and mages would go with memory erasure as an ability.
(Once we postulate memory re-writes, it's hard to use any specific knowledge as evidence of any kind of place; the transporting mechanism might have installed substantial local knowledge either before or after the wiping mechanism happened, it could be one mechanism, or the poor could just have been hit on the head.)
jsburbidge wrote:I'd agree that he's probably a descendant of the house of Ottovar, able to use its heirlooms (and Weber has elsewhere identified the Sword of the South as a main heirloom of the House. He knows too much about current items (e.g. War Maid ranks) to be from 1300 years ago.
I'm not sure descendant is what's required; there are a lot of descendants, pretty much all of the Sothoii by now. I'm guessing it's an ashes-of-the-last-red-heifer thing, and the Carnadosians aren't worried about what's about to happen because there isn't any way to use the surviving heirlooms with direct transmission, and they know they killed everybody in the line of transmission. Only, well, not quite...
The other thing that comes to mind is that this is Leanna from the next universe over, the universe where they were born a son. The carefully evoked strong similarity of appearance, or at least colours, between them might argue for that.