> In a message dated 1/16/2003 3:13:51 PM Eastern Standard > Time, "Ruhlen, Rachel Louise (UMC-Student)" > <RuhlenR at missouri.edu> writes: > > >> From: Alexx S Kay [mailto:alexx at TheWorld.com] > >> > >> Pipes, on the other hand, seem likely to exist. Do > >> Dragaerans have plumbing? Or is there some sorcerous > >> solution? > > > > I believe they use sorcery to clean out the chamber pots. I > > don't know how they supply fresh water to their homes. > > In _Teckla_ (I think), Vlad dumps his bathwater out the > window, which means he doesn't have any drains. I assume > drains are much easier to implement than running water. _The Phoenix Guards_ has a mention of a fountain that has "fallen into disrepair". That suggests piping (though sorcery probably could fulfill the same role). Are there any mentions of aqueducts? The size of Adrilankha and Dragaera City implies that there must be some mechanism, whether sorcerous or mechanical, to get large quantities of water moved over long distances. Alexx Alexx Kay Opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my employers alexx at world.std.com http://world.std.com/~alexx "The men of London, or at least a small but significant percentage of them, seemed to polarise between writing into the papers with wild and heroic schemes for catching the killer, or writing into the papers with sick, masturbatory fantasies in which they pretended to /be/ the murderer." -- Alan Moore in correspondence with Dave Sim about _From Hell_