Daav's departure was yes, in the nature of taking a path of nonviolence.
However, he also severed all his ties with his foster brother, his foster brother's wife and offspring, his son, his sister, his nephew, his father, and left no forwarding address or infordmation, ever. He set the ship to monitor comm traffic, but made no attempt otherwise to monitor anything about Korval or Liad.
He was ignorant of Anne Davis' death and Er Thom's subsequent death. Aelliana's by assassin, and given that his mother and a cousin died in a trap set for the ship, and his aunt was crippled and debilitated in the disaster that took her sister and her elder nephew, and the anger against Anne Davis' research results, Daav should have known that he wasn't leaving Liad and Korval in a nice peaceful calm situation. That is, his wife died in an attack against Korval, his foster brother's wife had been the victim of attack, his mother and cousin had been murdered in an attack and his aunt permanent disabled by it... and he left behind a young son.
By Liaden custom, he had walked, and stayed away for a far longer than considered de facto grounds for declaring someone legally dead. It was only the actions of Er Thom, Nova, Shan, and Val Con in failing to formalize his absence for so long, that prevented him from being declared dead.
As regards Theo--Jen Sar Kiladi gave her few real pointers before she went on the trip with her mother. Kamele moved into the academic quarters for the purpose of her work, and then took Theo along on the trip with the consultation and advice of Jen Sar. Jen Sar could have said things about pilot and space travel without breaking cover--he had had to have gotten from Liaden space to Delgado somehow and not being a wizard much less one of the caliber of Ren Zel or Anthora and not having a spacetime for springers cat leading him through a warp to a lifemate, he couldn't have walked there... he had to have come via spacecraft somehow. And Theo being Theo and sprung from dozens of generations of pilot ancestors of "Jen Sar"'s lineage, and being someoen that exciting times had a habit of landing on, to expect that she wouldn't be bumping into pilots, would be to expect way too much... ship-hunger's in her genes, going back all the way to both founders of Korval and to Jela.
A youngster of Korval lineage, going on a spaceship--other than Kareen and her emotionally abused son, the chances of ship-hunger not hitting, were almost nil.
And once Theo returned to Korval and let Jen Sar know she was aware he was a pilot, and informed Jen Sar that her ambition was to become a pilot, Jen Sar should have provided her with certain information about Liadens and their contracts and Code and Dealing the Liadens for Dummies critical information--recall the guidebooks ports had for visitors in Balance of Trade, for example
There's objective nformation, subjective information, and information that's a mix of both. That Liadens have a Code of Conduct as a guide to their lifestyles, is objective information. Jen Sar didn't mention that to Theo, even though he knew she was going to a mixed Terran and Liaden planet. Jen Sar didn't mention anything about hierarchies of trading ship families and the Liaden scouts and Terran whatever, even though "Korval is ships" and on the Terran side there were leading companies with lots of ships--Theo's roommate's family was apparently rather well-known, and Hugglelans has an interstellar multisystem basing presence and a number of ships--Jen Sar provided Theo with no apparently information about Trade and about, again, that rankings of whom was who in Liaden and Terran space. He was regularly visiting the yard that he'd left Aelliana's ship at, so he was in a position to hear the gossip of current status of the key issues.
Daav's choice to leave Liad and seek Balance by teaching was one thing. His incommunicado status and his silence to his daughter about information that anyone aspiring to be a pilot who was going to be on a mixed jurisdication planet needed to know, and his lack of telling her about who the powers that be were in ships, were other things, and ones that he flunked.
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Date: 2008-12-01 05:39 am (UTC)However, he also severed all his ties with his foster brother, his foster brother's wife and offspring, his son, his sister, his nephew, his father, and left no forwarding address or infordmation, ever. He set the ship to monitor comm traffic, but made no attempt otherwise to monitor anything about Korval or Liad.
He was ignorant of Anne Davis' death and Er Thom's subsequent death. Aelliana's by assassin, and given that his mother and a cousin died in a trap set for the ship, and his aunt was crippled and debilitated in the disaster that took her sister and her elder nephew, and the anger against Anne Davis' research results, Daav should have known that he wasn't leaving Liad and Korval in a nice peaceful calm situation. That is, his wife died in an attack against Korval, his foster brother's wife had been the victim of attack, his mother and cousin had been murdered in an attack and his aunt permanent disabled by it... and he left behind a young son.
By Liaden custom, he had walked, and stayed away for a far longer than considered de facto grounds for declaring someone legally dead. It was only the actions of Er Thom, Nova, Shan, and Val Con in failing to formalize his absence for so long, that prevented him from being declared dead.
As regards Theo--Jen Sar Kiladi gave her few real pointers before she went on the trip with her mother. Kamele moved into the academic quarters for the purpose of her work, and then took Theo along on the trip with the consultation and advice of Jen Sar. Jen Sar could have said things about pilot and space travel without breaking cover--he had had to have gotten from Liaden space to Delgado somehow and not being a wizard much less one of the caliber of Ren Zel or Anthora and not having a spacetime for springers cat leading him through a warp to a lifemate, he couldn't have walked there... he had to have come via spacecraft somehow. And Theo being Theo and sprung from dozens of generations of pilot ancestors of "Jen Sar"'s lineage, and being someoen that exciting times had a habit of landing on, to expect that she wouldn't be bumping into pilots, would be to expect way too much... ship-hunger's in her genes, going back all the way to both founders of Korval and to Jela.
A youngster of Korval lineage, going on a spaceship--other than Kareen and her emotionally abused son, the chances of ship-hunger not hitting, were almost nil.
And once Theo returned to Korval and let Jen Sar know she was aware he was a pilot, and informed Jen Sar that her ambition was to become a pilot, Jen Sar should have provided her with certain information about Liadens and their contracts and Code and Dealing the Liadens for Dummies critical information--recall the guidebooks ports had for visitors in Balance of Trade, for example
There's objective nformation, subjective information, and information that's a mix of both. That Liadens have a Code of Conduct as a guide to their lifestyles, is objective information. Jen Sar didn't mention that to Theo, even though he knew she was going to a mixed Terran and Liaden planet. Jen Sar didn't mention anything about hierarchies of trading ship families and the Liaden scouts and Terran whatever, even though "Korval is ships" and on the Terran side there were leading companies with lots of ships--Theo's roommate's family was apparently rather well-known, and Hugglelans has an interstellar multisystem basing presence and a number of ships--Jen Sar provided Theo with no apparently information about Trade and about, again, that rankings of whom was who in Liaden and Terran space. He was regularly visiting the yard that he'd left Aelliana's ship at, so he was in a position to hear the gossip of current status of the key issues.
Daav's choice to leave Liad and seek Balance by teaching was one thing. His incommunicado status and his silence to his daughter about information that anyone aspiring to be a pilot who was going to be on a mixed jurisdication planet needed to know, and his lack of telling her about who the powers that be were in ships, were other things, and ones that he flunked.