Coya Conyon:
twenty five years of age;
daughter of Malcolm Conyon and Beatriz Yeo;
granddaughter, through her mother, of Nicholas van Rijn;
an astrophysicist at Luna Astrocenter;
has traveled around most of the Solar System;
has also visited the extra-solar planet, Ythri;
followed the adventures of the Muddlin' Through crew in her teens.
When we read about the Muddlin' Through crew, we knew nothing of Coya Conyon but maybe she could be retconned into screen adaptations? Authors are always free to add to the pasts of their characters. David Falkayn's mother, Athena, appears once briefly in Mirkheim. A few details of his early life had been mentioned on the occasion of his first appearance in "The Three-Cornered Wheel." These could be expanded in any dramatizations.
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Kaor, Paul!
I remember those hints about David Falkayn from "The Three-Cornered Wheel": younger son of a Mermetian aristocrat who seemed to have been a trial and worry to his strait-laced, well meaning father. Became an apprentice to a Polesotechnic League master trader at least partly, I think, as a means of finding his own fortune. Fairly typical pattern for the UK aristocracy, where the eldest son inherited while his brothers would have to leave home to make their own ways in the world.
We get some hints about Coya's childhood. Her parents were very different from her grandparents, more puritanical in some ways. Coya had memories of Grandfather Old Nick roaring and blustering exuberantly when he came to visit, showering her with exotic gifts and tales of even more exotic stars and alien races. A scene like that could, with some legitimacy, be retroconned into a filmed version of "Lodestar."
Happy New Year! Sean
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