All this talk of dreams reminds me - has anyone else had dreams of stuff that took place in Dragaera? I had one a while back where Vlad was wandering around some city, and happened to enter a teleportation shipping warehouse (and mentioned that the shippers had to work in shifts so as to avoid spell burnout). He also wrote (or read) a letter which mentioned Aliera taking up witchcraft, and had successfully bonded with an athyra as a familiar (which actually seems plausible because she has experience of at least two places (Greenaere & the [spoiler]'s place in Issola) where she was prevented from using normal sorcery, and she might want to have an alternative to Elder Sorcery (besides powerlessness) available if such a thing happens again. Less plausibly, the letter seemed to say that Kragar had also taken a tiassa (or some other sort of cat) as a familiar (maybe he likes how Loiosh can fly around and give Vlad more info on a situation), or perhaps just as a pet (that part of the letter is fuzzier in my mind). More recently, I had this epic of a dream (by Paarfi, of course) where Dragaerans discovered space flight, and were adventuring all over the galaxy. It was somewhat autobiographical, since Paarfi introduced himself as a character, and started making these absurdly unreliable statements that made me want to shout at him (although I couldn't tell you what they were). At some point he started talking about Great Weapons, and how Vlad Taltos' life was extended by his possessing one. He also seemed to perhaps say that that was why Valabar's had lasted for so long - the head of the Valabar family secretly owned a Great Weapon as well (Morganti chopping knife, anyone? :-) ). There was the implication that in the course of exploring, they came across other peoples who had been manipulated by the Jenoine in a manner similar to Dragaerans - there was something about how House Lion had a character similar to Dragons and Dzur. There was more to it than that, but that's all I retain a coherent memory of. And some months back, I dreamed about reading about an Issola who interviewed a Dragon, which had some very cool setup & dialogue. Pity I don't remember most of what they said. But it was very cool.