Dragaera

(Orca related) Overcast queries

Mon Nov 25 03:37:35 PST 2002

Jag said:

>> It was my impression as well as that Furnace was what the Dragaerans
>> called the sun. I wonder what the Easterners call it since they can see
>> it?
> 
> I'm tempted to say they still call it the Furnace, since they overcast
> isn't required to think of a star as a giant furnace.  However, I also
> know the Easterners don't speak Dragaeran (and the Dragaerans don't
> speak English), so I'm sure whatever word the Easterners use, gets
> translated to the word in Dragaeran that gets translated to 'Furnace' in
> english :)

I would go further in suggesting that, since there is ample evidence to
support the idea that the overcast is primarily only over the Dragaeran
Empire, the humans/Easterners who live outside its influence (e.g. Fenario)
still simply refer to the sun as "the sun."

Monkey pudding,

John

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to tell you, I have no intention of doing, because I want to be young and
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and annoy people by pretending that I'm deaf." -- Edmund Blackadder III, Esq