Dragaera

Concerning the Great Sea of Chaos

Wed Sep 3 01:23:56 PDT 2003


On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Philip Hart wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, David Silberstein wrote:
> > On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, David Silberstein wrote:
> >
> > And since I just looked at the text of the introduction to Dzurlord, I
> > see that it says:
> >
> >        A few hundred thousand years ago, or so the story goes, an
> >     accident happened to the godlike Jenoine who lived on Dragaera and
> >     whose genetic experiments led to the tribes which eventually lead
> >     to the Seventeen Houses. What remains is a large Sea of Chaos, in
> >     the northeastern part of the Empire.
> >
> > Bother.  There goes a lovely theory, shot to little tiny pieces.
> > Unless, of course, the intro to Dzurlord is not canonical.
>
> I wasn't responding since AFB, but anyway I have a strong impression that
> Paarfi introduces the purple stones in _FHYA_ as being found on the shore
> of the Greater Sea.

Page 242 - "near the edge or the 'shore' of the Great Sea."


> Also I think you're misguided re wading only into the Lesser Sea but can't
> prove it.  Yet.

_Jhereg_, pg 151, Aliera says, "Walk into the Great Sea..."

Of course Aliera says a lot of things in _J_ but I think by default this
renders the question of _Dzurlord_'s intro's canonicity above a bit moot.