QoA question

[jen94kp.livejournal.com]

I just re-read QoA and there was one thing I had not noticed before that I have a question about.
In chapter 2 (in my book page 21) Attolia says about Eugenides that he had "caused her no harm beyond stealing something she hadn't known she possessed." This is before she decides to cut off his hand. What is she talking about? Honestly I thought it had to do with the whole love thing, but wasn't sure.

There's one other thing I'd like someones opinion on and it's the age thing. It doesn't bother me that I don't know how old everyone is in The Thief or KoA. But it kind of drives me crazy in this book. Mainly because Eugenides is getting married but also because of that reference to the last growth spurt. I know if MWT wanted us to know how old everyone was she would have told us, but well I want to know anyway.

Ok, I hope these questions aren't too tedious and over-asked, but I figured that's what this community

Questions about KoA

[yao590.livejournal.com]

Recently I have successfully recommended  the Thief series to my friend. She just finished KoA days ago and  also loves the books very much. Now I'm persuading her to join  this community. We happily discussed about the stories, but there are still some questions we couldn't figure out (which is also my own question when I first read KoA, but I forgot to ask).

What role did Laecdomon play in the last part of the book, when they were sparring? It seems that Eugenides, Attolia and Ornon didn't think that Laecdomon was a threat, but Costis and Teleus thuoght he was, and then how did the others think about Leacdomon? Did they know that Laecdomon wanted to kill the king? And what Eugenides said to Teleus,"'Ornon wasn't thinking of circus tricks. He knew that if Laecdomon had ever become a real threat, I would have disemboweled him. Did you forget?' He raised his lamed arm, and looking at the truncated limb, they remembered the deadly nature of the replacement for his missing hand." What does it mean?And what  does Laecdomon  have to do with the missing hand? We just could'nt make the whole thing clear.  Please let us know your opinions, thanks~

Oh, and another insignificant question, how old do you think Ornon is?

Age Theory

[crazyviolin.livejournal.com]

I thought about the age thing a lot and developed a long (complicatedish) theory for it and jen94kp's post reminded me that's what I originally Googled these books for, way back in November 05. (I would have just commented but I didn't want to take up to much space).

Is it possible that Gen was only 12 in The Thief? After all, Gen's mother died when he was ten, right? I did wonder if the age was wrong and Gen made it up when he wrote his criminal record in Sounis but then I realised that on P230 (Collins Paperback)of The Thief, Gen says in reply to Sophos's question of if his mother really died when he was ten, 'Yes, but not out of [the window of] Baron Eructhes's villa'.

( Evidence )

Well, that took me forever, I almost had to read The Thief again to get those quotes. So, what do you all think?