Kevin's Watch

As far as I can remember, only Lord Hyrim ever questioned the Bloodguard regarding the Vow, and even then he was cautioned by Lord Shetra to respect the Bloodguard. In fact, she almost uses the same words that High Lord Elena uses when she cautions TC about questioning the Bloodguard on Rivenrock.

What I was wondering is, what is it about Lord Hyrim that made him question the Bloodguard when no other Lord would. There are some hints in [Glidenfire[/i] that there is much, much more to him than meets they eye, but I just can't quite put my finger on what it is that leads him to question Korik outside Revelstone when it appears that no other Lord would even consider asking such things.

Thoughts? Comments? Ideas?

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Hyrim has an intuition about the lurker in the Sarangrave being attracted to Earthpower; in an attempt to test the hypothesis, he asks Korik what the latter has learned from the other Bloodguard who traveled in the Sarangrave recently, and when Korik isn't forthcoming, he presses a little until Shetra warns him. (Perhaps Lord Shetra, seeing Lord Verement's self-doubt when he wasn't Ranyhyn-chosen, is unusually aware of the internal conflicts around the Vow, and/or is hypersensitive to inflaming anyone's conscience for any reason?)

I have 3 thoughts about this: first, Hyrim seems particularly attuned to dangers that are in the Bloodguard's blind spots of worldview (he makes a last attempt to warn Korik about the IS ); second, perhaps all the Lords in this era have developed a (dangerous) habit of protecting the scar-tissue that formed around the dent Kevin made in the Vow; third, I've never at all understood why the Bloodguard are so unforthcoming in TIW with what they know: I mean things other than and less hazardous to know than the name of the Seventh Ward. Whenever questioned, Korik makes fine distinctions that don't fit well with the rest of his ethics.

It could be as simple as Hyrim having a more Giantish attitude about everything. He's more likely to laugh, less likely to be rigid and proper about everything. (He'd probably join in the thread about the white gold bling bling.) "What's the big deal? I asked ur-Lord Covenant to join us. I ask the Bloodguard about their Vow. What, they're babies who are gonna cry if I make them consider their lives?"

That's the way Hyrim came across to me too, Fist. Very open "hearted". He wore himself on his sleeve. I don't think he felt obliged to coddle anyone, especially the Bloodgaurd...

I always wished he had survived, as I think he would have been amazing in defence of Revelstone.

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