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Krait ([personal profile] krait) wrote2011-06-16 09:35 pm
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FOREIGNER: Discussion Post #5, Spoiler Edition

If you have discussion points for Chapters 7-8 you wish to bring up but which include spoilers, please post them here. Then link your comment in the general post, so those who want to avoid being spoiled can do so!
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a thought regarding Tano

[personal profile] krait 2011-06-18 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Chapter 7 gave me an idea regarding Jago's statement to Bren that Tano isn't licensed, versus his status in later books! Assuming it's not an outright lie -- and Tano does openly use a security radio in front of Bren, after the tourists have left -- perhaps Assassins must serve some sort of in-field journeymanship before becoming fully licensed.

It would explain both his familiarity with security equipment/methods and persons, his "clearances" the aiji mentions, and Jago's comment if he is a 'student' on the verge of graduating -- a top-level student, presumably, given his assignment to the aiji's household and long-held association with the Guildmaster.
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Re: a thought regarding Tano

[personal profile] pebblerocker 2011-06-18 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
This makes complete sense! Jago would feel absolutely no compunction about lying to Bren if it made things more convenient, about Tano's status or anything else -- but him being a not-yet-qualified assassin fits very well.

Are we told at some point that Tano is quite young-looking? It might just be the way I picture him, round-faced in contrast to Algini's angularity; I don't know if it's in the books somewhere or just what I made up.
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Re: a thought regarding Tano

[personal profile] cheyinka 2011-06-18 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
That's plausible, or perhaps on the other hand he's becoming re-licensed for "outside work", after spending time working inside the Guild?
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Re: a thought regarding Tano

[personal profile] krait 2011-06-19 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
That would fit, too; maybe the Guild has two levels of professional, one of them a sort of "Fully Qualified Backup" who work with licence-holding teams (and/or do the "groundwork"/manage protection and defence for things like buildings and towns), and the other "Licensed To Kill" :D -- qualified for work against live targets and mobility/traveling protection for an individual?
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