I'm currently reading The Second Generation (I read the middle three
stories a long time ago in the various Tales books) and last night I
just re-read Raistlin's Daughter. I have a couple of questions about it:
1. The baby is born with golden eyes, apparently to make a connection
with Raistlin. But did Raistlin have golden eyes, or just golden skin?
And at any rate, these things were a result of the Test, not genetic, so
why would that get passed on to a child? (I understand this is just
supposed to be a "legend", and maybe I'm just being too analytical about
it anyway.)
2. More importantly is this question: At the end of the story it is
mentioned that ogres were the most beautiful race until they were
seduced by evil and became the monsters we know them as now. But in the
story before (Wanna Bet?) Palin tells the story of the creation of the
original three races, and in the story he says that ogres were
originally created as slaves to evil.
So which is the true lore? Were ogres beautiful first or were they
always the brutes that they are?
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