a bit of spoiler space added: On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Frank Mayhar wrote: > David Silberstein wrote: > > I also noticed, on looking for something else, that in /Yendi/, > > Morrolan claims that he's never met Zerika's Easterner lover. > > Isn't Yendi set a couple of hundred years after the events of PotD? This > would be a bit past even an extended lifetime of your average Easterner. > That would be a problem with Elf-Easterner romances: Just when the Elf > is getting comfortable in the relationship, the Easterner up and dies of > old age. This has already been speculated on at fair length - witchcraft might allow long life, witches might not choose to extend their lives, Verra might help (v. Arra - ooh, check out the similarity of name), the Orb might help. Another part of the argument went that Zerika said in _Phoenix_ (I believe) that she'sin love with Laszlo's soul - so the current "Laszlo" could be the reincarnation of the old, with the old name reattached - but in some sense not the old - in the sense that Vlad's not Dolivar.