M J wrote: >From: J A 'Dusty' Sayers <dusty at sayersnet.com> >Reply-To: dusty at sayersnet.com >Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 17:50:28 -0500 > > > >>Chris Olson - SunPS wrote: >> >> >> >>>If I'm recalling correctly, Drien was either a female-turned- >>>male, or a male-turned-female. >>> >>>Did the name come from Charles d'Eon de Beaumont? (I recently >>>read of d'Eon (changed from Deon), in "By the Sword", and >>>the similarity was remarkable. I had to ask.:) >>> >>> ><schnip> > > >>I have sometimes wondered if Drien was named after Adrienne/Adrian >>Morgan, apparently a major influence on the world of Dragaera and >> >> >who > > >>seems to have changed the spelling of his (her?) name in ways that >> >> >make > > >>it a little ambiguous as to masculinity/femininity--but I don't >> >> >know the > > >>person and hate to speculate too much. >> >> > >Oh, hey, yeah - didn't Adrian Morgan RP as Morrolan in the game >that spawned all of this? (I do hope I'm not just making that up; >I thought that David (S, not DB) posted something along those lines >a few months back.) > >¬ >MJ > > > > > I think Adrian Morgan was actually the game-master or something along those lines--the originator of the whole setting, I think. -- J A Dusty Sayers Home Page http://www.sayersnet.com/~dusty/ Rescue the Princess http://www.sayersnet.com/~dusty/rescue/ 'We have it in our power to begin the world anew.' --Thomas Paine, 'Common Sense'