Ri is:
"'...the hero of some funny ychan fairy tales, who went to live on Mesyatz. I used to beg Trohdwyr for stories about Ri when I was a child.'" (p. 522)
The ychani are Dennitzan Merseians and Mesyatz is the Dennitzan moon.
So a screen adaptation of A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows could be accompanied by an animated series about Ri, such as children on Dennitza might watch. There is plenty of scope for fictions within fictions. The film of Watchmen was accompanied by an animation of the comic book that a character reads in the graphic novel. In Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, Christer Malm's boyfriend is an actor who stars as a Police Inspector in a TV series so the same actor could play the boyfriend in Millennium and the Inspector in - whatever that TV series is called. (I can look it up.)
Some installments of the Technic History are works of fiction within the History. Thus, e.g., an accurate biography of Manuel Argos might show us to what extent "The Star Plunderer" is a fictionalized account.
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Kaor, Paul!
Yes, I recall how that "introduction" to "The Star Plunderer" stated that even during his lifetime legends and "myths" were accumulating around the Founder of the Empire. Rather as similar legends accumulated around Charlemagne, in epics like THE SONG OF ROLAND.
Here and there in the Flandry stories we can see how Manuel Argos broods in the background, as in WE CLAIM THESE STARS, A KNIGHT OF GHOSTS AND SHADOWS, and THE GAME OF EMPIRE.
Ad astra! Sean
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