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HFQ Teaser? (Spoiler)

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HFQ Teaser? (Spoiler)
Post by ancient46   » Sun Jun 14, 2015 9:27 pm

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From the Barnes and Noble HFQ page.
"To all these ends, Merlyn Athrawes has been everywhere, under multiple disguises and wielding hidden powers. The secret of who and what he is has been closely held. But a new player has arrived, one who knows many secrets-including Merlyn's own."

Another of Pei Shan-wei's arrows?
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Re: HFQ Teaser? (Spoiler)
Post by NervousEnergy   » Sun Jun 14, 2015 10:29 pm

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ancient46 wrote:From the Barnes and Noble HFQ page.
"To all these ends, Merlyn Athrawes has been everywhere, under multiple disguises and wielding hidden powers. The secret of who and what he is has been closely held. But a new player has arrived, one who knows many secrets-including Merlyn's own."

Another of Pei Shan-wei's arrows?

I'd bet a weeks pay they're referring to Aivah.
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Re: HFQ Teaser? (Spoiler)
Post by tootall   » Mon Jun 15, 2015 7:13 pm

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NervousEnergy wrote:
ancient46 wrote:From the Barnes and Noble HFQ page.
"To all these ends, Merlyn Athrawes has been everywhere, under multiple disguises and wielding hidden powers. The secret of who and what he is has been closely held. But a new player has arrived, one who knows many secrets-including Merlyn's own."

Another of Pei Shan-wei's arrows?

I'd bet a weeks pay they're referring to Aivah.


 I vote for Nimue. (Note past tense)
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Re: HFQ Teaser? (Spoiler)
Post by n7axw   » Mon Jun 15, 2015 7:42 pm

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My vote is for Aivah. I think what is being referred to is that initial coversation at the beginning of the book.

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Re: HFQ Teaser? (Spoiler)
Post by EdThomas   » Tue Jun 16, 2015 5:47 pm

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Aivah, but I wouldn't bet anyone's paycheck on anything RFC writes. We have considerable textev to prove he is a diabolically clever man.
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Re: HFQ Teaser? (Spoiler)
Post by Keith_w   » Tue Jun 16, 2015 8:36 pm

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I think it is some one else entirely, a completely new player. I think, as far as Merlin and Nimue go, we are in for fun fun fun
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Re: HFQ Teaser? (Spoiler)
Post by n7axw   » Tue Jun 16, 2015 11:11 pm

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It might be someone completely new as Keith suggests.

However, remember that the little tidbit we are discussing doesn't come from one of our usual sourses, such as textev, the pearls or an RFC post.

It comes from the advertising blip encouraging us to pre-order the book. I doubt that RFC himself wrote it. It was probably written by one of the publishers advertising people who may or may not be thoroughly familiar with the series or even the book.

So what does this mean? First, it means that it's highly improbable that it is RFC trying to trick his loyal minions here on the forums. So who might the new player be? My guess is Aivah, although it's really not accurate to suggest she is new. She certainly was on to some of Merlin's secrets, however. That much the blip had right.

This looks to me like the sort of thing we would get from an ad copy writer who got just far enough into the book to write his blip before he moved on to whatever else had to be done that day.

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Re: HFQ Teaser? (Spoiler)
Post by tootall   » Tue Jun 16, 2015 11:32 pm

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[quote="n7axw"]
However, remember that the little tidbit we are discussing doesn't come from one of our usual sourses, such as textev, the pearls or an RFC post.

It comes from the advertising blip encouraging us to pre-order the book. I doubt that RFC himself wrote it. It was probably written by one of the publishers advertising people who may or may not be thoroughly familiar with the series or even the book.


I still vote for Nimue -
BUT as Don points out -It's not Runsfor who wrote the blip----
So... we'll never know unless we can get said advertising person to tell us which NEW PLAYER he's talking about.
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Re: HFQ Teaser? (Spoiler)
Post by Keith_w   » Sat Jun 20, 2015 12:31 pm

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tootall wrote:
n7axw wrote:However, remember that the little tidbit we are discussing doesn't come from one of our usual sourses, such as textev, the pearls or an RFC post.

It comes from the advertising blip encouraging us to pre-order the book. I doubt that RFC himself wrote it. It was probably written by one of the publishers advertising people who may or may not be thoroughly familiar with the series or even the book.


I still vote for Nimue -
BUT as Don points out -It's not Runsfor who wrote the blip----


So... we'll never know unless we can get said advertising person to tell us which NEW PLAYER he's talking about.


I am re-reading HFAF and notice that when Father Paityr was discussing the Schuler legacy, he also mentioned that while the key and stone's continued existence was a Wyllsyn secret his father had thought that there was someone else who was aware of their continued existence, although they did not know who. (HFAF, hb - pg. 183) This leads me to believe that it would also be possible for that person to be aware of other things as well.
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Re: HFQ Teaser? (Spoiler)
Post by Tonto Silerheels   » Sun Jun 21, 2015 1:12 am

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Keith_w wrote:

This leads me to believe that it would also be possible for that person to be aware of other things as well.

Include me amongst those who believe the blurb refers to Aivah.

~Tonto
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