Philip Hart wrote: >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. > > > It makes sense. Dragaerans appear to use cleaning spells to dispose of trash and wastes (at least in Vlad's time, so insert margin of error here); it had to go somewhere during the Interregnum, and it couldn't go into the overcast... Wouldn't that be a recipe for plagues? Of course, there are also the witchcraft-based plagues, as mentioned in Jhereg, but I imagine that witches didn't need too much help in that regard. Jose -- Jose Marquez jhereg69 at earthlink.net