On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 04:52:58PM -0500, Alexx S Kay wrote: > I agree that if rifles were currently available to someone like Vlad, he > would use them. But this only means that they aren't currently available, > not that they never were. Didn't _Dragon_ show us that (a) Dragaerans use bows and (b) Vlad had never heard of the concept before? And we haven't seen him use them since. > To the left, between Lyorn compulsiveness, and the (as you mention below) > documented survival of incredibly ancient documents, I'm dubious that any > technology that existed long enough to be widespread could possibly be lost. > ["Lost" in terms of "completely forgotten". I can easily conceive of certain So firearm texts exist in Lyorn archives in old versions of the language. Not "widespread", and not likely to come out in a couple hundred years. -xx- Damien X-)