On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Sunny Han wrote: #My thought was that perhaps Fenarians are from the Earth, distant from #Dragaerea... like that's where they're from... (See my just-previous post.) Originally, yes, >200,000 years ago; the ancestors of ALL the Easterners (and all Dragaerans, apart from the Jenoine's genetic manipulations). Fenario is just one small nation of Easterners. -- Mark A. Mandel http://cracksandshards.com a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website