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 Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:15 am
(Before anyone comes back to this thread, if you ever do, don't flame me please.) Actually, yes. Leroux did say he(Erik) was born near Rouen. Seeing how the Persian knows all of this, I can only say that either the Persian was there, or Erik told him all about it. (Here's a thought for you, if the Persian was there, and by following SK, what if the Persian was the priest? Yes, I know he was called 'Daroga' by Erik, which means Cheif of Police in Persian, but he could have been a priest before that, and had to name Erik after himself! Just a little confusion to get you through the day.)
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:36 pm
No offense: I find that highly unlikely. Not many people left the priesthood in those days- they took matters of their soul very seriously. And Daroga being Muslim (I think he was Muslim, right?) automatically strikes him off the list of who the mystery priest was.
That's going by SK.
My real curiosity is how he aquired the name Erik.
Possible origins: Scandinavian, Czech, Slovene, German
Erik in Germany...That's a rather odd thought.
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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:27 pm
I agree with welcometomyhell. The Persian was Middle-Eastern, meaning it would be rare he was a Catholic priest. Beside that, he was serving under the royal family of Persia with what we must assume a family. You don't leave the priesthood, get married (priests in the Catholic religion are celibate) and change religions, not to mention continents.
Creative idea, but a lot of evidence otherwise is packed against the idea. sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 3:54 pm
eh? I don't even remember posting that...
And I still haven't read SK...I WILL find it in our library someday!
Then again, I haven't been there in two years...
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:06 pm
Mystery Priest did have a name in Kay... Father Erik Mansart. Definitely a different character from her Nadir Khan. (Who, additionally, is only a few years older than Erik in that book.)
Just because Erik tells Christine he got his name 'by accident' doesn't necessarily mean he did. He could just be being weird. Or maybe he was named after someone else (a la Kay) and it annoyed him.
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:45 pm
PhantomoftheFox Mystery Priest did have a name in Kay... Father Erik Mansart. Definitely a different character from her Nadir Khan. (Who, additionally, is only a few years older than Erik in that book.) Just because Erik tells Christine he got his name 'by accident' doesn't necessarily mean he did. He could just be being weird. Or maybe he was named after someone else (a la Kay) and it annoyed him. That sounds more probable than anything else. Erik was a disturbed man. Since he hated all humanity except Christine and apparently Nadir, he denied his name and country, saying he had none so as to hold no ties to the world. Cherry pie somehow makes me make sense...or I'm just a little more lucid than usual today.
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