named after Pairuti took a shot at Bren and demised.
Question: name of new lord at Targai, a Peijithi, subclan of Maschi
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I think he appears at the party where Ilisidi and Damiri make a public tour of the room together.
The name appears in ‘Protector’ on page 6 (Kindle) It’s Haidiri.
Yes! Thank you so much!
Now—can somebody recall the names of the cousins of the assassins sent after Tatiseigi? The two were partnered with them. The names of the two who went north were Momichi and Homiri. The cousins have been missing since.
They aren’t named in either Protector or Peacemaker.
The missing partners of Momichi and Homuri were not given names. Momichi and Homuri were from Reijisan, their partners were presumably from another village, which was not named either. I assume Cenedi got that information from them; you’ll have to quiz him. 😉
The unnamed partners are from Meitja. [Protector, during the questioning]
Bren’s talk with Homuri starts on page 306 in the hard cover version of Protector. He only mentions the partners once.
Page 311, “We went to Reijisan. We both came from there. Our partners went another direction. To Meitja.”
Page 320, “Our Dojisigi immediately named a name. Pajeini, Chief of the Shadow Guild in the Marid– personally involved in the threat to them, and, they suspect, similar dealings with the other half of this aishid”
From the time Bren first talks to the Dojisigi pair to when Bren steps on the bus, these are the only two mentions of the partners I can find.
This is great! I didn’t know I was getting trivia nights when I signed up for the message board.
Lol!
All right, another one! WHO is currently lord in the Senjin Marid, the northwestern Marid.
I don’t know if that name has ever been given. Most of the lords in the Marid haven’t really appeared yet.
Is that the spoiled brat of a teenage girl? If so, I’m sure she’s named somewhere.
Tori, Tori’s son Mujita and Mujita’s spoiled daughter Tiajo were Dojisigi. I’m not finding anything for Senji, either the old lord who would have been assassinated when Tori was or whoever was put into power after him.
That’s helpful. Tiajo is still in power, a threat to everyone. Mujita is either dead or so scared of the brat he’s as good as. Tiajo is the ultimate spoiled teenager now getting a little past teenage.
Probably not if Homuri and Momichi get their way – they have no man’chi to Tiajo, and would probably be happy to take her out, after the appropriate Filing.
The only other name in that tangle I can locate is Tiajo’s third cousin, Adil. He might be Senji, though it isn’t specified. From the beginning of Chapter 13 of Intruder where Jago is catching Bren up on how things are going in the Guild sort-out in the Marid.
Jago shrugged. “She is having a difficult adolescence, and if she does not improve within the month, one doubts she will remain in any influence, if she remains alive….
Tiajo and her father have both been warned that if this person, her third cousin, Adil, does File Intent against her, the Guild may well withdraw her bodyguard and her father’s rather than continue to defend them.”
You’d think some clever programmer would come up with am indexing software program that would “ride” on a word processing program that would allow authors to highlight a name, transfer it to the indexing program type a brief description and then hop back into the word processing program. Seems to me there would be a crying need for such among authors.
You can do something like that in programs like Scrivener or yWriter (I’m more familiar with the latter, so I’ll describe it.) Basically, it has a character tab where you can list the characters and various traits of theirs, such as descriptions and nicknames.
Of course, you have to remember to list them …
Hmmm… It occurs to me that a rough hack to find one-off or two-off words and names would be to use the ‘word list’ feature in a program like yWriter. The feature lists every word in the text and counts the number of times it shows up. Just run down the list of single or double use words to find the odd one you’re looking for.
This is for those of us without an eager hive-mind of fans who will do the searching for you, of course!
OT: has anybody else noticed the not-quite-full Moon and Jupiter in conjunction Saturday or Sunday evenings?
The Readers Guild is awesome.
Thank you all for the assist. I have a file that is searchable. Unfortunately two people use it. CJ who is the plotter and designer and finagler of dastardly plans, and CJ the writer who gets so far into the story that she forgets to take notes about that ‘small’ character who is mentioned in passing. Some of those characters should not be trusted.
Or as Jane just said when I reported to her how the set-up was going “OMG, you’ve got enough material there for ten books.”
That is very promising to hear! I hope to keep on reading in this world for a long time to come.
Maybe the third CJ, with the editor’s hat (who might in fact be Jane) should get access to the file as well, just to note new names & who they are … or we (the readers if this blog) should pick up the wiki-ing of all the people and names again and try to get the Who’s who finished!
Though with the fast answers readers here manage to give, it doesn’t seem really necessary.
Hmm. A very rough first approximation could be to have a word processor add-on which reads the file and indexes every word, with the page and paragraph or line number in which it occurs. Something like { Bren { pg 126 ln 14; pg 234 ln 56; … } ¶ mecheita { pg 49 ln 41; pg 361 ln 05; … } ¶ } If it were to weed out common words, words less than 3 letters, or, hmm, a file of words to omit, the could be a start. I believe there’s a Unix command line utility that does that for a plain text file and numbers the lines, but not with pages, paragraphs, or word processor files. — Omitting lowercase words would omit species names (human, atevi/ateva, Kyo) and some proper nouns (seasons, for instance). Omitting 3 letter words would omit (Aja Jin, Jik, Iji) and (Kyo) for example. But if the utility were to list only capitalized words, that could be a useful approximation too.
In my own attempts at fiction and keeping notes, I have wished for a good way, more like a PageMaker page layout publication, in which chapters or main headings have easy-to-jump-to markers in the file, and some form of automatic indexing to track character names, vocabulary words, non-English words/phrases, and so on.
And — character styles versus paragraph styles: the word processors I have used lately are *still* bad about character/phrasal styles (such as for marking a non-English phrase with its language, or some keyword or definition, small-caps, other handy things like that. It’s 2017. Why oh why do our word processors still lack decent standard features for such handy writer’s needs? Or clean HTML/CSS or standard epub output or…. Oh, bother!
Or a good way to add custom colors for a given project, saved with the stylesheet. Or proper small-caps if a font has them. Or…. Phooey.
@CJ and @Jane — Today I wonder if there’s a more obvious option I was overlooking. WordPerfect should have built-in options for creating an index, table of contents, references cited, cross-references, and so on. It’s been too long since I last read up on how to do that for MS Word or for OpenOffice / LibreOffice / NeoOffice, but they have similar options.
Is there a way to tag a word or phrase for automatic indexing, say? If you can somehow tag key words and phrases for auto-index or other such writerly tables, then if you remember to tag each character or key term, any proper nouns (capitalized or lowercase) or key common nouns, then that should help in search ability for terms.
Would Lynn or Patty or other author friends of yours be familiar with this or with any useful add-in feature or independent utility program that might do this? I’d think it would be needed for all authors of fiction and non-fiction alike. But possibly the SFWGA could fund a developer company to write a utility for WordPerfect, MS Word, and the open source Office suites, or other programs like Scrivener or Final Draft?
Now I want to read up on what options NeoOffice (for Mac) and LibreOffice (for Win) has on this.
What about contacting SF&F authors with a more techie bent, or who have sci/eng/tech backgrounds or academia ties?
What if it could be an open source / libre project, or a class or thesis project for computer science students? — I’m just throwing out ideas in case this sparks anything for you. 🙂
(My old college programming skills are so rusty, and not fit for modern software add-ins. But this gives me a good reason to want to study up. I still need to learn PHP and Java, at least, for web work.)
Word does allow indexing – it’s under “references” in Word 2007. LibreOffice 4 seems to have it under “Insert”.
I won’t say that they’re easy or convenient, as I haven’t used indexing in either.
WordPerfect has fairly comprehensive (and a bit complicated) indexing and table-of-contents features. It also has the ability to create a “concordance” file which I made good use of while editing the Thieves’ World anthologies. The downside to all the features, though, is that they have to be manually loaded. There’s no AI to tell them what to track.
MSWord lets you record key stroke sequences into macros which can be triggered by a key combination such as CTRL+Shift+I so the fact that using the indexing feature is “clunky” can be got round by making a macro to access it. I use Word. I shall have to investigate this indexing feature. My “work around” is that I have two monitors and I have a “notes” document open on one screen while my manuscript document is open on the other — and I have autosave enabled as well as backup enabled. I can highlight and copy portions of text like descriptions from the manuscript into the Notes etc. Also, if you set your notes document up right, you can use the sort feature to alphabetize character entries by name.
Also, the “autocorrect” feature can be used as an ersatz text expander and a shortcut program for words/names that have vowels with accent marks, umlauts, circumflex, etc., or special characters like euro signs, pound signs that you have to “make” using ALT+ the ASCII code number. If a name is rather long and involved, or has multiple parts, you can use the “autocorrect” to expand your shortcut for the whole thing — like “Carav” expanding to “Caravaggio”
@John Scalzi had @Greg Benford on his blog as a guest columnist for his Big Idea posts today, 2017-05-09, so I posted about the idea there. It seemed like a perfect opportunity. And hey, since I’ve posted this publicly, I’m OK with anyone (multiple people) working on development. I don’t currently have the skills to make it my baby and run with it to development. Besides, I would love to see some good plugin or utility happen to do what writers want. I’d want one!
You Windows users need to read this and make sure you get the patch described here.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39856391
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/4022344
Dodged that bullet. I’m still using Windows 7 and I have 6 email addresses.
Speaking of indexing, after much wailing and moaning from the reference librarians, TPTB finally got their act together and made it so that you can access the databases for which we are paying from any library computer. It only took them a year and a half after the ‘upgrade’ which originally broke the darn thing…
I am going into work today under duress. I finally caught DH’s cold, which settled in my throat and I fully expect to lose my voice by the end of the day. However, we are already down staff, and I just got a call from one of my remaining staff that she has to make an emergency run to the mainland. There is no joy in Mudville right now.
Ow. Lemoned ice tea might at least relieve the misery.
Last week, while practicing a piece by Carulli, I found that my teeth were very tightly clenched as I ran through the piece. (It’s one my instructor calls a “show-off piece”, and I try to play as quickly as I can and not make mistakes) Anyway, when I relaxed my jaw, the #18 molar started to hurt, and now it’s very tender. It had a chipped filling last fall that they replaced, but now something else is wrong. Have a call in for an appointment. I hope this doesn’t entail another root canal, those events drain my insurance in one visit, and I’ll have to wait until January for it to renew. In the meantime, I still need to replace the extracted tooth from last summer. AND, since my father is back in rehab for the 3rd time in 5 months, after falling AGAIN, I’ve been out there with him. He’s being the typical stubborn PITA when it comes to home health care – he refuses. The last time he fell, two weeks ago, I walked in on him lying halfway between the kitchen and hallway where he’d been for the past 13 hours. That prompted a call to 911, as he was in a position that I couldn’t move him, and he’d torn his left elbow and was “stuck” to the kitchen tile floor.
Oh, my, Joe. So sorry. I’m kind of in the in-between position with dental woes, too, btw, as the graft failed and an implant isn’t possible. COuld eventually become possible, but not as it stands. And it’s way expensive. So I tried what’s called a flipper, as opposed to a bridge. Too painful by far even to put in, and would create sores, total failure on that.
But the dentist and I came up with a real inexpensive way to keep the gap from causing a problem in positioning of the teeth above, a night-time retainer that looks like a whitening tray of clear plastic with a couple of shots of porcelain-like stuff in the gap. Comfy, easy, doesn’t bother me sleeping, and it keeps teeth where they belong. I’m real happy with it, and the dentist, after the other didn’t work, gave me the thing for free. This lets me save money until this dental work thing shakes out and settles down, with no more expensive fixes that turn out to have problems.
The dentist has an online appointment request form, and when I filled it out, I got the response, “Thank you, someone from our office will be in touch with you within 1 business day.” Hah! So, I called this morning, and I made an appointment over the phone for tomorrow morning at 8:30. Last night, the pain was so bad (8 on a scale of 10), that I had to take something stronger than Tylenol.
Yikes. I didn’t intentionally jinx anybody with my #18 extraction Friday. So sorry, all.
Joe — gosh, parents and grandparents, what can you do? I’m so sorry he’s being stubborn and having trouble. It’s very hard putting up with that, when you know your loved one needs help and is avoiding it. Maybe you and other relatives can pool funds to begin managing some care needs for him? If he’ll listen and let people start doing that, set up for when he can’t handle it in the future, that will help a lot. Ah, and if I had things to do over again, I would have listened to advice and set up a fund and a trustee to manage the care, so they’d be the “bad guy” and not me, the grandson. (And so she’d have to listen to that person, not me.) And this was with a really good relationship with my grandmother. Not Ilisidi’s type, but ohhh, stubborn, yes. Heh. Just my two cents. YMMV.
CJ, I hope things go OK for whatever dental work happens.
I’m still recovering fine, beginning (early) to eat slightly more solid food (I cheated and had chicken salad and potato salad today, and a soft biscuit from the typical Pillsbury store-bought canned dough, barely browned. (Still not quite used to the new oven.) So my tooth’s still doing OK, but not always happy with eating and I’ve stretched out the pain med to 5, 8, or 12 hours, however much before it complains. Irrigating the area early also, hoping for good results, trying to be a good patient. (And totally impatient to get something more substantial food-wise.) I have threatened to pounce upon and devour, not quite whole, some unsuspecting, defenseless BBQ sandwich or the like, when I can finally really tolerate this. Tomorrow is when I’m supposed to be able to begin adding solid foods again. But it’s still pretty tender there. (It wasn’t truly bad except the first day or two, so I’m good.)
I am still in sticker shock about the upcoming big dental work in 6 months or so. But news that, if I can get health and dental and eye care insurance, the oral surgeon being an M.D. as well may mean it can be partly a “required medical” as well as dental expense for insurance coverage, thus less out of pocket yet still substantial, is better news. (And wow, that’s a terrible run-on, clauses and all.)
There are options, but something must happen, and this is for both function (being able to eat what I want, and properly chew) and appearance (I want a good-looking smile again. Very tired of damaged teeth being what people see.)
So — Friends and associates with dental work ahead, my sincere sympathies. Right in the middle of it, and ow, the mouth, and ow, the pocketbook.
Despite it being bad timing, I am going to try a trip to my storage space tomorrow, to see what I can sort through and/or rescue. Kitchen stuff, lang ref books and novels, Cyteen among them, and my camera are.high on the priorities list. Maybe half a day. But I’m not expecting it to be too productive. Sigh. Still, it needs doing.
Chondrite, geez, I hope you and the husband-unit feel better soon. Lemon tea sounds good anyway.