Trivia / Tigana

• Reality Subtext: After Devin kills a man for the first time, he is musing about deaths, and to what extent they do or do not define the lives that preceded them. He wonders if Stevan had lived and died so that Brandin might cause the destruction of Tigana. In a philosophical sense, probably not, but in a literary sense... yes. As a character, Stevan did exist for that purpose.
  It was difficult to sort out though. Had Stevan of Ygrath lived and died so that his father’s grief might work the destruction of a small province and its people and their memories? Had Prince Valentin di Tigana been born only to swing the killing blade that caused this to happen?