On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Derrill 'Kisc' Guilbert wrote: #In spite of my statements regarding how unneccesary genetic #drift/change/whatever is, note that the Jenoine are known to have done #something to Easterners as well, though what was never specified. Maybe #Vlad's complaints about the Furnace being too bright are more than just him #not being used to it. No, that wouldn't make sense. Vlad is an *Easterner*: his ancestors for >200 millennia, down to (probably) Noish-pa, have lived east of the Mountains, with no Overcast or Enclouding or Hand of Faerie. Noish-pa has shown him the Furnace in his own (N's) memories. Whatever the J. did to the Easterners genetically, it can't have made them intolerant of sunlight. -- Mark A. Mandel http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/ a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website