At 02:01 PM 6/7/2002 -0500, Nancy Thuleen wrote: >At 10:57 -0700 07.6.2002, Glenn Ellingson wrote: > > > When Zerika brought back the Orb, sorcerers who had worked on their > > psionics and then regained connection to the Orb were able to > > accomplish much that had not been possible (or at least wasn't common) > > before the Interregnum. Hence the easy teleportation ... > >I'm sure someone has puzzled through this before, but there's one aspect >of this I'm just not getting. It's clear (Paarfi states it explicitly) >that teleportation was basically impossible before the Interregnum (well, >not impossible, perhaps, but he says there were no reports of any >successful attempts) ... and yet the Dragonlords had all of those floating >castles, which Paarfi also makes a big deal about. And Vlad, upon his >first visit to Castle Black, comments that the only way to get there was >to teleport. You keep forgetting that Vlad is an idiot. You *levitate* to the floating castles. (There will be more of this in Viscount).