Chris Turkel <zizban at adelphia.net> writes: > > On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 12:23 AM, David > Silberstein wrote: > >> >> She doesn't say exactly that. What she says is that >> Easterners - what *we* call humans - arrived first (except >> for the Serioli, who are native) and were modified by the >> Jenoine into Dragaerans. She doesn't say explicitly >> "terrans", of course. >> >> This also jibes with the Serioli calling Vlad "of the Old >> People" or "People from the small invisible lights". > > I should modify my original question . I have read Issola > but even before it was published there was such > speculation. Are there references in earlier books? The Mr. Lung comments above are from _Dragon_. I'm pretty sure Verra made some comments in _Phoenix_, and there might have been something said when Aliera mentions the Jenoine to Vlad in _Jhereg_. --KG