From: David Silberstein <davids at kithrup.com> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:14:45 -0800 (PST) >Anyone else have any interesting dreams about Dragaera? Well, er, I once dreamed that I was at the Neverending Party at Castle Black and that I was trying to make Aliera a cup of tea. (She kept saying that of course _I_ wouldn't know how to make one correctly, but she drank it anyway. There is no pleasing that woman.) Oh. Wait. You said _interesting_ dreams. 'Fraid not. >I dreamed that Morrolan's flying castle slipped through >a time-warp to the 14th Vallista Reign. Tangent: are Dragaerans _allowed_ to time-travel? Wouldn't the gods put a pretty heavy stricture on that sort of thing? I can see a lot of people wanting to send a Jhereg back in time, pointed right straight at Adron pre-purple-stones. >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. Ah, the Ministers of the Interior and the Decorating? The Ministers of the Raising Up and the Casting Down? Cain and Abel? >One may have been insane, or perhaps they each considered the >other insane. <charmed> I wonder if all Vallista in one particular phase of the creation-destruction cycle tend to look askance at fellow Vallista who are out of phase with them? >That's about all I can remember. > >Speaking of Vallista, I find myself wondering just how inventive >they are. Well, they're probably just about Feanor-level, in theory. >After 200,000 years, they've just barely invented bows & arrows? didn't Steve say something about how, when it comes to warfare, they really do prefer the up-close-and-personal approach of sword, knife, and whacking-sticks? And then something further about how toxology is ill-suited to the jungle-like environs of the first tribes and armies, and the Dragaerans being too sot in their ways to figure out something new? (I might be making that up. But looking it up in the archive seems like a -lot- of work to be doing when it's this late at night.) >Are Vallista who are too creative (or are too creative in certain >areas, such as military applications of chemistry or basic mechanics) >just disappeared? I bet they make up the bulk of the small gods, them and the Athyra wizards who've passed on. ¬ MJ, halfway through "To Reign in Hell" for the first time, WOW.