Chris Olson - SunPS wondered aloud: >We can assume that Dzur Mountain has something to do with >Sethra's longevity, but what about the SiG? Any ideas or hints >we've been given? Now I'm just curious.... It's pretty common in fantasy for wizards to live much longer than non-wizards. When the non-wizard base lifespan is 2,000 years, as in the case of Dragaeran elves, "much longer" can be tens of thousands of years, I suppose. Note similarly the extended lives of Arra and Noish-Pa. Alternately, people who hang out with Sethra Lavode acquire her habit of living an unusually long life. Bodes well for Vlad, who's got both witchcraft and the Sethra Lavode Effect to keep him tottering along perhaps as much as a tenth of a Dragaeran lifetime.