My lame attempt at obscurely saying that I'm jumping into a working conversation and adding my piece after not posting in this thread for months. Nothing relevant to this discussion
...shucks
It's time for your treatment, seeeeriously. Join the Dollhouse: Cardiff movement...
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This is what I think happened...
Serash builds a raft and one way or another escapes the earth temple on it. She if found floating on the sea by a Norse ship. Feeling sorry for her and her deformity they brink her back to Norseland and hide her away in the house that will someday be Ariel's... well I can't remember if Ariel's house was there before or if it was built for him but either way ...
Years later Ariel comes along and finds her there, probably dreamed of it. He gets into her head, he learns all the Sandorians secrets, about lotRQ and slavers, learns she's a good sailor and slowly starts manipulating her, buys her pretty clothes and things just to reinforce the manipulations and his image. When he's got his own roots down; and none of this should take too long, I mean he had Rushie for only a month or two, he places Serash into the position he created for her.
And from then on he can control pretty much every aspect of Salamander.
I am sorry if anyone's mentioned this before it's been a while since I've read through the thread.
I do believe that Salamander is Jakoby's twin sister. It is true that Elspeth hears Salamander speak in The Stone Key, and that the voice is deep but it is mentioned a few times in the series that Jakoby herself has a very deep voice.