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 "Either I think up an idea, or, tomorrow, we die - which, Baldrick, I have to tell you, I have no intention of doing, because I want to be young and wild, and then I want to be middle-aged and rich, and then I want to be old and annoy people by pretending that I'm deaf." -- Edmund Blackadder III, Esq