On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:20:15AM -0800, "J.Jasper" <jsjasper at attbi.com> wrote: > 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. This makes me begin to wonder if perhaps Morrolan is half-human. Have we ever seen a Dragaerean-Easterner crossbreed? I can't recall one, but I also can't recall any statements to the effect it's impossible. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp