> me to add point 4) Guns would have reappeared during the > interregnum if they had been developed previously. I'm not sure that statement is believable. Just because we haven't heard about guns, doesn't mean they didn't exist. Most of what this thread has based its arguments on is what Vlad has told us about history as he knew it and he was not a good history student. He says so himself. (Paraphrase..."My father didn't like my grandfather teaching me about Fenario, so he hired a tutor to teach me Dragaeran history, but my tutor didn't like me and the feeling was mutual..." then somehow he indicated that he didn't learn as much as he could have, as a result.) Rachel