On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 Gaertk at aol.com wrote: > 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. I would (no reason) guess the plagues were of Dragaeran origin, and for the record I didn't intend to suggest any military consequences earlier.