Jot Powers wrote: > > Spoiler space > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 12:56:36PM -0600, Ruhlen, Rachel Louise (UMC-Student) wrote: > > 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. > > My thought is that he didn't escape the disaster because he doesn't > have to for Morrolan to be around. However, his MOTHER definitely > had to. :) > Are we sure it was only Morrlolan's father who was a witch? Perhaps it was his mother as well. Furthermore, if she was a witch, she (Morrolan's mother) might have suspended the gestation a bit. It's an ability that's consistent with the way that Brust has described witchcraft. Or perhaps his father suspended the gestation. Or perhaps Dragaern gestation takes a long long time.