ffunky, on 15 September 2010 - 08:23 PM, said:
I see it more as Dragnipurake = "Wielder of Dragnipur". May be wrong, but sounds logical.
I was just looking this up today (Google Books is your friend) and Anomander/Anomandaris goes by at least three surnames: Dragnipurake, Purake, and Rake, all obviously related.
But those words aren't always used as names: when Silanah and the Tiste Andii (without Rake) first face off against Raest in GotM, Crone shouts "Silanah! Dragnipurake t’na Draconiaes! Eleint, eleint!" whatever that means. And "purake" shows up, oddly enough, in MT when Feather Witch speaks in Draconean: "Eleint Tiam purake setoram n'brael buras--"
So the words have to do with Tiam and the Eleint/dragons somehow, which is how I would usually interpret the word "Draconean". But the sword by the same/related name was forged by
Draconus. The question that presents itself (and indeed has nagged at me since I started the series) is
what is the relationship between Draconus and dragons?
"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch