Dragaera

Vallista

David Silberstein davids at kithrup.com
Tue Dec 30 18:14:45 PST 2003

Anyone else have any interesting dreams about Dragaera?

I dreamed that Morrolan's flying castle slipped through
a time-warp to the 14th Vallista Reign.  Sethra was able
to identify the era by recognizing the architecture, as
they passed over Dragaera City (I'm pretty sure that
was it what it was).

I seem to recall that they could not in fact teleport,
perhaps due to the fact that the Orb had not yet been
reconfigured.  There were certain problems getting
their sorcery to work right, but obviously, the castle
did not fall down.  They managed to get out somehow,
and into the palace, but I don't quite recall how they
did it.  They might have levitated, or they might have
eventually gotten teleportation to work somehow.

They spoke to a woman very close to the Emperor - possibly
a Prime Minister, or similar.  She seemed to be one of a
pair of such ministers - one of them was in charge of tearing
things down, the other was in charge of building things up.
One may have been insane, or perhaps they each considered the
other insane.

That's about all I can remember.

Speaking of Vallista, I find myself wondering just how inventive
they are.  This ties in to the whole notion of technology on
Dragaera possibly being limited by the intervention of the gods,
or by demons, or by the Orb, or by the Jenoine or *something*.
After 200,000 years, they've just barely invented bows & arrows?

Are Vallista who are too creative (or are too creative in certain
areas, such as military applications of chemistry or basic mechanics)
just disappeared?