On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Bryan Newell wrote: > > Furthemore, there are a couple of references to the Dragaera River, to the > east of the city, which was apparently destroyed by Adron's disaster (btw, > why didn't the chaos follow the riverbed? What keeps it "contained", > especially during the Interregnum?). > > There are a couple of references to a Canal that ran from Candletown to > Dragaera City (again, why didn't the chaos flow through the canal?). Why > build a city at a place that you have to build a Canal to for easy > transportation? Perhaps there was something about the location that we're > not aware of; perhaps Amorphia was more easily conjured there for whatever > reason. Note that Paarfi is writing some 200 kyears after the founding of DC (I wonder if the initials are a little joke) - the river could have moved a good deal in that time. And the river might be inconveniently swift coming out of the mountains, or subject to flooding, so perhaps a longer, easily controlled canal would make sense. (Are there references to dams? I wouldn't think Dragaeran engineering could handle a serious project.) As far as the path of amorphia is concerned, I don't see what canals have to do with anything. If chaos followed a low-density path it would consume the atmosphere - if high-density, then perhaps it would consume the bedrock the city was presumably built on. Is it subject to gravity? Is its behavior even causal? We don't know enough to begin to speculate.