Day 125
Standard Year 1118
Modrid
In which Jethri and the master of Modrid Trade Hall make their opinions of each other very clear.
Jethri shows a couple of times in this chapter that he doesn’t expect the regard of others. As Master ven’Deelin notes, when the Hall Master refuses to accept him as Master ven’Deelin’s apprentice he’s more upset about the insult to her than the corresponding slighting of himself. And then he admits that it hadn’t occurred to him that his uncle might have genuinely considered that he had properly earned the right to hold the ten-year Combine key. Perhaps it comes of being the baby of a large family, with or without the addition of a parent who wants nothing to do with him. It’s something he’s going to have to work on; humility is well and good, but a trader is not going to get very far without a sense of his own consequence.
The historic tapestry of surpassing ugliness is an amusing detail.
RE: The historic tapestry of surpassing ugliness is an amusing detail. I was amused also, and in addition had a passing thought about whether the authors might have a real world tapestry in mind as their “model.” The Bayeaux Tapestry, perhaps?
Or maybe a single panel from the Tapestry of the Apocalypse? The one for the Fourth Horseman, maybe, or the one with the beast, or the Whore of Babylon? Ohhhhh, I know . . .The Fall of Babylon! (For the curious, these can all be found by googling for info)