I only had a hazy memory of reading the Scottish accent bit once upon a time, so I went looking and I think this is the entry I'd read. More of a headcannon discussion than I'd remembered, but a couple of comments about MWT envisioning the accent containing a bit of a burr. http://sounis.livejournal.com/592524.html
And ye Gods, Dunnett certainly beats up on her characters with surprising regularity. I kind-of think she was a bit enamored of Lymond herself, so while she is a fabulous writer and has to have a certain amount of stretching to fit fictional people into real events, I do think she got a little carried away with exploring the psychological and physical side-effects of trauma on a character she loved and what would bring him to breaking point. MWT is a tad more believable to me in the way she makes bad things happen realistically or for a real reason (historically accurate punishment for thieving for example). It does make me chuckle a little that the Gods being more real in her stories makes it a little bit of a convenient "Deus ex Machina" in moving things forward, like helping Gen make some peace with his physically enforced change of career because of what the trade-off might mean.
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And ye Gods, Dunnett certainly beats up on her characters with surprising regularity. I kind-of think she was a bit enamored of Lymond herself, so while she is a fabulous writer and has to have a certain amount of stretching to fit fictional people into real events, I do think she got a little carried away with exploring the psychological and physical side-effects of trauma on a character she loved and what would bring him to breaking point. MWT is a tad more believable to me in the way she makes bad things happen realistically or for a real reason (historically accurate punishment for thieving for example). It does make me chuckle a little that the Gods being more real in her stories makes it a little bit of a convenient "Deus ex Machina" in moving things forward, like helping Gen make some peace with his physically enforced change of career because of what the trade-off might mean.