On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Michael Barr wrote: > PG is "submitted" in year Zerika 309; FHYA in Norathar 11 and PotD is > Norathar 179. If we assume that there was also a 168 years between PG and > FHYA, it follows that Zerika reigned for 456 years. Obviously, it is not > a number to be taken literally, but it does suggest that Zerika probably > reigned for 400-500 years and suggests it is impossible that Vlad and > Cawti survived to see it. Vlad says somewhere that his crowd (I think referring to Morrolan and Aliera) don't expect to die of old age. It occurs to me that if Lady Teldra can fix (muscle? nerve?) damage that maybe it/she can repair senescence. I hope so - lots of Vlad adventures to look forward to... - Philip