On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Ruhlen, Rachel Louise (UMC-Student) wrote: #On another issue, as I was reading Athyra, I was troubled that Savn #thought Vlad looked old, even though he knew Vlad was probably #chronologically younger than himself. According to all the timelines, #Vlad should be about 24 in Athyra, unless I'm missing something. Any #thoughts on that? Even if Dragaerans tend to look young most of their #lives, surely they don't look younger than a 24 year old human? Savn is a teenager, maybe about 15, in Easterner terms. Any adult is "old" to a teenager. And whatever Vlad's actual age, he's been through a lot and has been wandering around the countryside avoiding civilization for some time; that will age a person, too. -- Mark A. Mandel http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/ a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website