Philip Hart wrote: > 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. Yeah, but not having actually _seen_ that, center stage, I tend to discount it. > 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. This could certainly be true. In which case, Morrolan is merely being evasive or overly literal. That is, he's never met said lover _in his current incarnation_. Making _Yendi_ continue to be canon, warts and all. :-) -- Frank Mayhar frank at exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/