Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> writes: > On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Noam Izenberg wrote: > >> 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." And according to Vlad, Northport would be better named Westport, so it seems that the plagues (at least initially) came through the seaports rather than over the mountains, which would lower the military consequences. To the left, there's mention in POTD of significant Eastern migrations. --KG