Mr Perdoe,

I like to thank you again for SURRENDER YOUR DREAMS. It's probably one of the best DARK AGE novels I've read so far. (My other favourite is THE SCORPION JAR).

I reread your book over last night and I realized something very momenteous about it.

Devlin Stone

This is the first time we heard first hand words of this character. Not by heresay or second hand accounts. Considering the mythic status of this epic hero, I understand why WizKids is so reluctant in letting him play a part right now. My question is Mr Perdoe...did the genesis of Devlin Stone occur during the Mechwarrior/Battletech series of novels? I know that we saw shadowy fragments of The Master and The Word of Blake, but did we ever see the beginings of Stone during the Fed-Con Cvil War?

I don't know...I get the idea after reading Stone's address to Redburn. That he is sort of an older grandfatherly sort of individual that hides a wealth of secrets. The way he calls Redburn "son" sort of adds to this picture in my opinion.

yes i agree with u. devlin sure got tons and tons of secrets, also the part where he call redburn son...........hmmm.........maybe he is stone's son???:noid:
also the end part where levin says "he finally died the way he deserved to die" hmm....wat does levin meant..........damn make me wonder wat redburn do in the name of protecting the republic..

but hell yeah REPUBPLIC Survived!!! WOO HOO

Er... no. Stone says he trusts Redburn like a son.

And when Redburn refers to Chin as son, there's no familial relation there, either.

opps haha attempts at misleading fails hahaha :cool:

I enjoyed the book the a lot. It was nice to have a change in the way the book was structered and written.

But on a more serious note: Curses. Why Mr. Pardoe? Why create something that intrigues me yet agitates me to no end. Did they not deserve that end?

Now ask me if I would feel the same way if the Ghost Bears where in that role? :cheeky:

lol, we all know that they would have to pit every other power in the inner sphere to take down the dominion. :)

of course that's what it took to take down the Fidelis' ancestors (plus a little Clan help)

After reading Mr. Pardoe's current work on BattleCorps I had a feeling that the Fidelis were going to be revealed as Clan Wolverine. I was also confused by the parts about how afraid the fidelis were to let anyone, especially the Falcons know who they were.

It said that it would be a bigger deal for the Falcons, not anyone else in the IS to know who the Fidelis were. In my mind it would have been a serious problem if they were Wolverines and no where near as big of one as Smoke Jaguars.

yes same......at 1st i thought they are wolverine or word of blake units but in the end i was pretty surprise when they are revealled to be smoke jaguars

I totally think Clan Wolverine should come back and kick some butt. They were never destroyed.

On occassion, a little surprise is fun.

What has amazed me is that by coming right out and saying, "It's the Smoke Jaguars!" there are folks out there (present company excluded) that are still going, "no, it has to be the Wobbies, the Wolverines, etc.."

Proof positive that people are addicts to conspiracy theories.

None of us want to believe it is that simple. Just like nobody wants to believe that one lone nut with a rifle could kill JFK.


Blaine "Buck" Pardoe

Just finished reading the book. An excellent read. I especially liked it when the Custos/Paul Moon noticed that he looked just like Trent when he last saw him. Quite the change in him from so long ago.

I wonder if we'll ever find out more about the Fidelis/Smoke Jaguars. The story behind how they became the Fidelis would make a good book.

betrayed by the clans.........escaped to inner sphere.....pick up by another party.....then left to die during jihad....found by devlin put entire clan under bondmenship..........place on new earth to rebuild and retrain to protect their new home and country..............gonna be interesting

Well I am not gonna spoil the end for everyone but to those who have finished tyeh book WOW as for Marik being a traitor he stated in teh book that anything he did to ruin the Republics name with the common folk was good Tha does not sound like he is working for the best interests of the Republic I mean He is a Marik,probably the paladin who was comming Levin during the vote in the novel THe Scorpion Jar

Well I think that Clan Wolf wouild be a little more upset about the Smoke Jaguars surviving then The Falcons