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* When Locke and Jean return to the Sinspire after going to Port Prodigal and back, Selendri refers to Jean as "Valora", when she should know him as "de Ferra". How does she know about their pirate names? It is never brought up in the rest of the book.
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** [[spoiler: Lamor Acanthus]] sounds perfectly ordinary, so it souldn'r surprise Jean, whose reaction was like it isn't a human name at all, but derogatory nickname at best. Maybe it's [[spoiler: Gentleman Bastard]]?
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** She's definitely not with the Bondsmagi - too much evidence against it. As for who she actually works for, Scott Lynch has the series scheduled to go for seven books, so presumably he'll reveal it at a later date. Could just be an agent for a political enemy of Tal Verrar though, trying to destabilize the city for future invasion or something similar.
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*** Added to that, they probably would have refused the contract too since it would bring two of them into direct conflict with one another. They aren't particularly friendly even to one another, but I imagine that'd be a strong point against providing Barsavi any help.
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** Depending on the fashion of the area, wearing gloves while eating may not be that big a deal. Point about the bathhouse, but they might just not go to any.
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*** The "informal social safety nets" refered above to ''are'' the neighbors and friends and business associates anyone acquires in their lives, whose motivations to look after the boy were explained in detail above. It's impossible for those safety nets not to exist or totally fail in any human culture. (The reason people wouldn't take in their neighbor's orphans today is that the State replaced the informal nets with organized social security, meaning there are lots of complicated laws to follow, and there's no peer pressure anymore because everyone expects government agencies to take care of the kid.[[note]]The development of official social security was necessary to take care of those left behind whose social contacts were ''too poor'' to take care of them. This wouldn't be a problem affecting someone who's upper middle class like Jean.[[/note]]) To "subvert" them, the Thiefmaker would have to go on a killing spree. It wouldn't be a problem if Jean was orphaned in another plague so we could assume his parents entire social net died - but he explicitly was orphaned in an accident that affected only his parents.
The only way I can see Jean ever ending up in Shades Hill is if he was actively abducted by the Thiefmaker - but Jean would ''know'' that, and should later have at least tried to contact his realatives and/or get his inheritance back. There needed to be at least some little explanation in the books that his parents were up to their gills in debt, or that some asshole uncle / business contact from out-of-town "adopted" Jean and then abandoned him to die in the poorer districts (where nobody knew him and the Thiefmaker found him wandering) in order to get at his inheritance, cash it out, and disappear with it, or... something.
The only way I can see Jean ever ending up in Shades Hill is if he was actively abducted by the Thiefmaker - but Jean would ''know'' that, and should later have at least tried to contact his realatives and/or get his inheritance back. There needed to be at least some little explanation in the books that his parents were up to their gills in debt, or that some asshole uncle / business contact from out-of-town "adopted" Jean and then abandoned him to die in the poorer districts (where nobody knew him and the Thiefmaker found him wandering) in order to get at his inheritance, cash it out, and disappear with it, or... something.
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*** The "informal social safety nets" refered above to ''are'' the neighbors and friends and business associates anyone acquires in their lives, whose motivations to look after the boy were explained in detail above. It's impossible for those safety nets not to exist or totally fail in any human culture. (The reason people wouldn't take in their neighbor's orphans today is that the State replaced the informal nets with organized social security, meaning there are lots of complicated laws to follow, and there's no peer pressure anymore because everyone expects government agencies to take care of the kid.[[note]]The development of official social security was necessary to take care of those left behind whose social contacts were ''too poor'' to take care of them. This wouldn't be a problem affecting someone who's upper middle class like Jean.[[/note]]) To "subvert" them, the Thiefmaker would have to go on a killing spree. It wouldn't be a problem if Jean was orphaned in another plague so we could assume his parents entire social net died - but he explicitly was orphaned in an accident that affected only his parents. \n The only way I can see Jean ever ending up in Shades Hill is if he was actively abducted by the Thiefmaker - but Jean would ''know'' that, and should later have at least tried to contact his realatives and/or get his inheritance back. There needed to be at least some little explanation in the books that his parents were up to their gills in debt, or that some asshole uncle / business contact from out-of-town "adopted" Jean and then abandoned him to die in the poorer districts (where nobody knew him and the Thiefmaker found him wandering) in order to get at his inheritance, cash it out, and disappear with it, or... something.
