On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Damien Sullivan wrote: #*shrug* Someone has to be first. The first restaurant in the Empire wasn't #started that long ago, probably within one Dragaeran lifetime. Valabar's has been there for "hundreds of years", which sounds like since shortly after the Interregnum. -- Mark A. Mandel http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/ a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website