Re-reading Shadow Study for whatever reason, I noticed that both Zohan and Zethan have blue eyes just like Valek. Zebulon has brown eyes and no magic, similar to Valek's brothers Vincent, Viliam and the Other One Whose Name I Can't Remember.
Since Valek's mother also has blue eyes, said that the magic came from her side of the family and had children when she thought that she was too old; I started thinking that if you wanted to detect magic in Valek's family all you had to do is look at eye color.
(That's it! I was re-reading the entire series so I could re-check his family's eye colors......there are worse reasons I suppose)
And what is up with those names? What happened to X and Y? Especially if his parents thought that Zebulon would be their last child? Were his parents continuing an obscure family custom and somewhere Valek has cousins named Xerxes and Yerig?
Since Valek's mother also has blue eyes, said that the magic came from her side of the family and had children when she thought that she was too old; I started thinking that if you wanted to detect magic in Valek's family all you had to do is look at eye color.
(That's it! I was re-reading the entire series so I could re-check his family's eye colors......there are worse reasons I suppose)
And what is up with those names? What happened to X and Y? Especially if his parents thought that Zebulon would be their last child? Were his parents continuing an obscure family custom and somewhere Valek has cousins named Xerxes and Yerig?
These things grab the huge nerd side of me.
:-)