Pardon me if I jump in here unannounced: >> If the plagues come _from_ the East and only hit Dragaera because its >> various protections have failed, then that would be a wonderful >> precursor to invasion - even invasion embodied simply by natural >> expansion to fill the voids left behind by dead outlying Dragaeran >> communities. > >In _FHYA_, pg 546 of the ppb, Paarfi writes that after the Disaster >"the first seeds of the Great Plagues were beginning in Adrilankha, >Candletown, Northport, Branch, and Tirinsar." I don't believe Branch or Tirinsar are mentioned elsewhere, but the other three are all port cities... Has anyone run across a reference to the Empire trading with Easterners over water? I can't think of any. Bryan