Dragaera

Geography: Has Castle Black Moved?

Joshua Kronengold mneme at io.com
Mon Feb 23 06:56:10 PST 2004

Philip Hart writes:
>Two quick comments - any calculations based on Tazendra's quick
>guesstimate about her ability to move Castle Black, coming just
>after the Orb's reappearance, are unlikely to convince me that
>they have much bearing on Morrolan's ability to move the castle
>after a few hundred years of study.

Uh...yeah.   I mean, they're both wizards, but still...

>speculates it might be telling the castle not to fall.  I think the
>landscape information might be echoed elsewhere - anyway this passage
>seems to suggest Vlad believes the castle is sessile, as it were.

It's clear that Castle Black has a "customary" location.

However, I seem to remember, and I do not think I do so incorrectly,
that Castle Black is, in Dragon, moved to overfly the battle.  If I am
noit correct (and I rarely am), then it would seem that Morollan's
home is still quite mobile (when he wishes it to be).

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