kbus888 wrote:RHWoodman wrote:.
We don't know much about Schueler, but the Wylsynn family has a relationship with Schueler going back to the Creation. The book has allowed us to see that Schueler gave certain gifts to the Wylsynn family, and that the Wylsynn's believe that they are descended from Schueler (though they do not say this outside of family, AFAIK). The Wylsynn family is good and decent, and they have been associated in Safehold's history with reformers in the CoGA.
As FriarBob correctly points out, there is no direct text evidence for our speculation about Schueler. There is text evidence about the Wylsynn family, though. There's also that somewhat cryptic comment in OAR made by Pei Kau-Yung to Nimue when he awakened her that he was going to kill Langhorne and company with his small nuke, and that the only other person who knew about Nimue and the plans of Pei Kau-Yung and Pei Shan-Wei was going with him to meet Langhorne for the final confrontation. Who was that other conspirator?
The lack of knowledge about Schueler himself and the positive knowledge we have of the Wylsynn family (which may be descended from Schueler) allow us to speculate that perhaps Schueler was a good guy or a not-so-bad-as-Langhorne guy. And we'll likely keep right on speculating until the MWW shatters our crystal ball with another revelation or plot development that ends this line of speculation and gives rise to a whole new line of speculation that is probably equally incorrect. <Smile>
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Family values can change a lot over eight centuries.
R
