On Friday, July 26, 2002, at 07:41 PM, Thomas Yan wrote: > Gaertk at aol.com writes: > >>> †Gobs and gobs of spoilers, so here's your spoiler space. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> All the Dragaerans were originally experiments, and so >> presumably started off near the Jenoine research compound. > > Only one compound? Maybe not near, given the Jenoine's attitude > towards "location" -- maybe only tagged, for easy pickup. > >> That reminds me; the impression that I got from Sethra's >> history lesson was that the gods sided with the Dragaerans >> against everyone else, which I consider to be a big mistake, >> and perhaps its starting to catch up with them. Of course, >> Verra seemed to be leading the early gods, and I'm not at >> all impressed with her god-like intellectual abilities. > > That's my impression, too, although keep in mind that Verra is Vlad's > (ancestors') patron goddess. > >> I remember someone on the newsgroup arguing that Zerika >> should arrest Aliera as a pre-emptive move, since BOTH of >> her parents destroyed significant amounts of geography. > > Wow, my mind went blank for an extended moment. I was about to ask, > wait, who is her mother and what did *she* do? > >>> †Zerika most likely was one of (if not -the-) the most >>> powerful Shamans of the Tribes; she, possibly Sethra, >>> maybe a Serioli, and maybe Verra (I don't recall if Verra >> >> I wouldn't think a Serioli would be invovled, but then >> myth claims the Orb was made by Jenoine, which is even less >> likely. > > Cite? p37 of Issola has Sethra attribute the Orb's creation to > Zerika, under the directions of the gods. > > - tky > > Was that the original orb? Thought there had been at least one before. I could be wrong. ------ Chris Turkel,Guru, Dragaera Readalong List http://dragaera.info Buy my Book! www.xlibris.com/TheWorldattheEdgeofTime.html