The perceptive reader may notice small inconsistencies in the charactersappearing in these stories. Their speech patterns, their accounts of certainevents, and their observations on the town’s pecking order vary from timeto
These are not inconsistencies!
The reader should consider the contradictions again, bearing three thingsin
First, each story is told from a different viewpoint, and different people seeand hear things differently. Even readily observable facts are influenced byindividual perceptions and opinions. Thus, a minstrel narrating aconversation
with a magician would give a different account than would a thief witnessingthe
Second, the citizens of Sanctuary are by necessity more than a little paranoid.
They tend to either omit or slightly alter information in conversation. This isdone more reflexively than out of premeditation, as it is essential for survivalin this community.
Finally, Sanctuary is a fiercely competitive environment. One does not gainemployment by admitting to being ‘the second-best swordsman in town’.
addition to exaggerating one’s own status, it is commonplace to downgradeor
