May-30-2010, 03:26 PM (UTC)
(This post was last modified: May-30-2010, 05:15 PM (UTC) by Nuytsia.)
Farseer yeah there's definitely only one silver - mostly referred to as 'the silver' (gets a tail injury and is not healthy) and towards the end declares himself to be named 'Spit'
I'd say it's definitely MEANT to be a male, it's just typos/errors where it temporarily switches gender.
EG:
The silver dragon is referred to as 'her' on p 257 (this was in dialogue - 'someone on the stern' talking). The dragon is then correctly referred to as 'he' in the text on the next page.
Actually one other I found was actually referring to Heeby (Rapskal's red female dragon):
p 34 first paragraph - 'his scales' and 'his head' then finally back to 'she'.
Joost yep I know the keepers just assumed the copper was male and then the dragons (Mercor?) pointed out it was female. Think that happened at the end of Dragon Keeper?
The ones I was thinking of were actual text errors.
I am getting pretty certain Skrim is not mentioned in the UK edition text....
There was at least one other thing in that DK 'list of characters' inconsistent with my UK edition DH text - it says Davvie is 15 but I am fairly certain within the UK text of DH it said he was 13 (I remember being a bit surprised he was so young).
Geees Farseer I thought you DID get searchable electronic versions of at least some of these books. The things you find are UNREAL!
Added later:
What happened to Shreever! Wah I wanted to find she was one of the dragons by the end of DH. Poor old Sessurea, I'm not sure whether to be happy or sad about him!
I'd say it's definitely MEANT to be a male, it's just typos/errors where it temporarily switches gender.
EG:
The silver dragon is referred to as 'her' on p 257 (this was in dialogue - 'someone on the stern' talking). The dragon is then correctly referred to as 'he' in the text on the next page.
Actually one other I found was actually referring to Heeby (Rapskal's red female dragon):
p 34 first paragraph - 'his scales' and 'his head' then finally back to 'she'.
Joost yep I know the keepers just assumed the copper was male and then the dragons (Mercor?) pointed out it was female. Think that happened at the end of Dragon Keeper?
The ones I was thinking of were actual text errors.
I am getting pretty certain Skrim is not mentioned in the UK edition text....
There was at least one other thing in that DK 'list of characters' inconsistent with my UK edition DH text - it says Davvie is 15 but I am fairly certain within the UK text of DH it said he was 13 (I remember being a bit surprised he was so young).
Geees Farseer I thought you DID get searchable electronic versions of at least some of these books. The things you find are UNREAL!
Added later:
What happened to Shreever! Wah I wanted to find she was one of the dragons by the end of DH. Poor old Sessurea, I'm not sure whether to be happy or sad about him!