On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:01:51AM -0700, Tom Swenson wrote:
> Accualy, knowing that Dragaerans don't care about the diffrnce between
> wine and brandy, or javelines and arrows... They might not /care/
> about timezones. They don't seem to me to be big on fine distinctions
> like that. TO them, it may well be that the time is what the orb says
> it is, and nothing else matters.
A very reasonable attitude. Cross-empire teleport seems to be fairly
rare, and it's not at all clear if the empire is wide enough for more
than a few hours difference to occur. People might just get the attitude
that dawn happens earlier in some places than others, much as summer days
are longer in Seattle than San Diego.
In fact, in a teleport-based society, they're likely to lose all
large-scale sense of geography. If it's more than a few minutes walk,
it's teleport-based. For an example of same, see Dan Simmons' "Ilium".
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