Question

[ariss-tenoh.livejournal.com]

I've been assaulted by a fic and I need help from my fellow comm members^^ Where does Gerald mention his brothers and father? I do recall him telling Damien how brutish they were and that his father ruled with an iron fist or some such.

Comments

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I'm at work and away from books but I think it's in When True Night Fall

good luck ^^

[alice_montrose]

In Black Sun Rising:
The Hunter glared. "I was the youngest of nine sons, priest. My brothers took after their father, in form and spirit: a hulking, crude beast of a man, who believed that there wasn't an enemy on Erna he couldn't bring to his knees if only he swung his fist hard enough. I grew up among them, sole inheritor of our mother's mien - and I didn't come into my height until late, or my power. Now, you think about the cruelty of that kind - and of sibling youths, in general - and the brutality of my age, which was at the end of the Dark Ages - and then tell me how much I don't understand." He turned away. "I think I understand it very well."
"They died," Damien said. "Within five years of your disappearance. All of them."
"It was the first thing I did, once I had gained the power - and the moral freedom - to work my will upon the world. And those eight murders are among my most pleasurable memories." (pg. 522-523)

Also, Damien mentions them to Senzei before they go meet the Hunter:
"They thought he died! They thought that hell had claimed him. And of course, yes - there were rumors. There always will be, after something like that. His brothers died in violent accidents, and he was blamed. His fiercest rival was found with his throat torn out, and of course it wasn't mere animals that had done it. The ghost of the Neocount was given credit for at least a hundred crimes - but there never was any proof, not for any of it. And when several lifetimes had passed since his disappearance, it was reasonable to assume him dead. Mortality is the one constant of human existence." He shook his head in amazement, and struck his fist against the altar top; a candelabra trembled. "It's been almost ten centuries, Zen. Ten centuries! How can a human being live that long?" (pg. 247)

[ariss-tenoh.livejournal.com]

Thank you! You're a life saver.

[ariss-tenoh.livejournal.com]

It's okay. I got it.

[alice_montrose]

Hehehehe. More like obsessed. ^^;;;
But it was my pleasure.

[prettyarbitrary.livejournal.com]

Alice is the Coldfire Queen. XD

[alice_montrose]

Alice is not the Coldfire Queen... C.S. Friedman is. :P

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

And I got it totally wrong too ^_^;

I need to learn to shud up XD