On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Thomas FURNITURE ARTIST wrote: > From: Mark A Mandel <mam at theworld.com> > > #Consider the FACTS WE KNOW. > > [deleted most of very nice analysis] > > It's always nice to receive a compliment from someone whom is generally > considered one of the experts. Thank you. Even Homer nods... > Princess Kareen (sorry, misplaced the name, it's been recently > mentioned by Mssr. 'I Find It Best to Keep Your Books Handy') is said > (by Morrolan and/or Sethra and/or Aliera) to have died during the > Disaster, before Zerika IV's birth. Do you mean "Careen", as in "lurch or twist"? It's a nice word, and "loudin" probably isn't a mistranscription of "louden". Is "Mssr." meant to stand for "Monsignor", as I like to style myself? For the record, it is asserted by Sethra's envoy (_TPotD_, pg 113) that "the Princess herself scarely survived the birth of her child by a year, falling to the first wave of Plagues..." > It is possible -- not necessarily > probable, but again, possible -- that she was mortally injured during > the disruptions before Tortaalik was, instead of being killed during > the actual 'coming-into-being' of the Lesser Sea. If she was dying and > in labor with the infant Zerika, and presuming there was a Phoenix > circling overhead, Zerika would have been the Phoenix Heir ... though > only if she survived.