Dahlfes

"Some of the less-heard ones, like her seeing him off to Sto-Vo-Kor, or her learning of her family's deaths -- I liked that, the way she dealt with it when there was nothing she could do -- but even the ones everybody knows, like their stand together against the 500, or the wedding ambush, the differences are fascinating when one reads different versions. In the oldest accounts, there's the recurring line in each verse of "The Lady Lukara, tiny but fierce,' while anything but those makes it sound like she was some sort of giant woman. It's nice to think that maybe she didn't have any physical advantages, but just wouldn't quit. Especially since... most people seem to forget, sometimes, that she wasn't marrying an Emperor. She was marrying a soldier with new ideas who just couldn't be stopped, and whom she'd stuck by even when the others gave up. It's ... nice."