Dragaera

Morrolan's father

Fri Dec 13 11:03:53 PST 2002

On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 13:56, Ruhlen, Rachel Louise (UMC-Student) wrote:
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> > From: Casey Rousseau [mailto:casey at trinityhartford.org] 
> > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 11:43 PM
> > To: dragaera at dragaera.info
> > Subject: RE: Paths of the Dead
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> > > Picked up a copy Tuesday from the B. Dalton at Union Station
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> > I thought of it even more when it was revealed that Rollondar
> > a) settled in the East at the beginning of the Interregnum, and
> > b) had  long before we ever met him taken a name in an Eastern tongue
> > with the meaning 'Star that never fails'.   It seems quite 
> > certain that
> > Morrolan is not the first witch in his family.
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> How did Rollondar escape the disastor? I thought he was running the
> battle at the time it occurred. I KNOW he wouldn't have fled from it
> before the crisis and he wouldn't have had time after. Although Arra
> doesn't explicitly state that his father came East w/ his mother, if it
> were otherwise, than Morrolan was 156 years old at the beginning of POTD
> and I can't believe he'd be so dumb as not to have noticed THAT.
> Rachel

I coulda sworn I checked dates when I read, and it did make it so
Morrolan was born shortly after the Disaster.  I he was 156 at one point
in the beginning, but 200-something later on in the book.  Time skipped
around a bit during the beginning of PotD.


Jag