The Elephant in the Room?

[kiscakat.livejournal.com]

Didn't MWT say there was supposed to be an elephant in her next book (e.g. TaT)?

I found the elephant!

P-
I have received your letter of last month. Your handwriting has greatly improved. I am sorry that the archivist would not let you look at the map of the Empire. I am sure that when your tutor returns he will allow it. I have made this map in haste to give to the messenger who leaves today. I will hope you have already seen a better one by the time it reaches you.
Yours in Friendship, -K


The "P" stands for...

                                    ...wait for it....

                                              Pachyderm!

(Although Pigeon works too...)

Sorry, I couldn't help it.  I JUST thought of this - and it made me laugh!

PS
Is there any form of the name Brinna that could possible mean "sand" or "sandy"?  That seemed like something MWT would do to us...but I can't find it if there is...

Comments

[canonisrelative.livejournal.com]

PACHYDERM!!!!!!!!

<33333333333333

[agh-4.livejournal.com]

Oh, T O T A L L Y ....

Do you think Erondites named P as his heir himself before getting approval? Is Pachyderm a relative?? Would anyone other than Gen prefer an elephant to inherit the largest barony in Attolia?

[agh-4.livejournal.com]

For reference:

https://www.indifferentlanguages.com/words/sand

For mwt hinting about 6th book elephants in the last sentence (sorry if you saw this already!):
http://harperstacksblog.harpercollins.com/author-qa-with-megan-whalen-turner/

[kiscakat.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I had not seen this...and I enjoyed reading it.

Meaning of names

[(Anonymous)]

Found one meaning of Brinna as brown and one from Sabrina as thorny. Best meaning found in old dictionary of given names from 1930s for Gitta (Hebrew) = Goodness!

[badtzphoto.livejournal.com]

thanks for this qa

kiscakat, P for Pachyderm! Awesome :)

[agh-4.livejournal.com]

Yes! It's such a good interview. :)