Count Petofi and Lord Kitchener

[Philippe Cordier]

I was going to post a couple of questions regarding Count Petofi, but I did a little Internet research on one of the questions and thought I'd share the results.

However, I do have one other question, not related to this.  What is Petofi's "cosmic plan"? I don't remember anything about this from my previous viewing.    He's obviously trying to recruit Quentin for something, but what?  And why?

My other question was going to be, who is this "Lord Kirchener" to whom Count Petofi keeps referring?

Actually, I was able to answer this myself, thanks to "google." Some preliminary information came up under the spelling "Kitchner", but it appears that the correct spelling is "Kitchener."

I imagine this question didn't even need asking to our English cousins, because Kitchener was a famous British military man of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

He crushed a rebellion in Sudan (bet Petofi would have liked that) and was made "Lord Kitchener" in 1899 -- a bit late for our storyline, but it seems like too good a fit not to be what the writers had in mind.  Unless someone else knows something else?

He was stationed in Egypt in the late 1800s and later was known as "Lord Kitchener of Khartoum."

A brief bio can be found at:

http://indianarmy.nic.in/arimaacc.htm

Poems idolizing his heroism can be found at:

http://www.geocities.com/~bblair/fallen_twp.htm

And an article investigating his secret homosexuality can be found at:

http://www.findarticles.com/m1373/11_49/57748066/p1/article.jhtml

(I realize this last item may not be of particular interest here ...)

[Cassandra Blair]

Way interesting Vlad!  Looks like the DS writers goofed again - Kitchener wasn't even made a 'lord' until after the events of 1897 took place.  Oh well...perhaps Petofi was 'remembering' something that had yet to happen.

And also interesting that there is debate over Kitchener's sexuality, given that the same debate has occurred regarding Petofi's sexual proclivities.  Hmmmmm.