On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Sean Whalen wrote: > > --- Alexx Kay <alexx at panix.com> wrote: > > > > Careful there. The Great Sea of Chaos may not be attached to the > > primary (remaining) continent at all. > > For whatever reason, most people in Dragaera don't seem to have ever > gone to or be at all familiar with any other places on their planet. > They've never traveled to the East or been beyond it, never crossed the > sea, have no idea what other continents there are. Do we know this? Page 22 of _Phoenix_ is the only evidence I'm aware of. There is mention of a Maelstrom which ships can't pass - perhaps that's the Greater Sea, abutted by the Grey Rocks and Spindrift Lands. Anyway, Vlad is sadly incurious on various details of his world. I can well imagine that the Kieron line is more familiar with geography. Perhaps an e'Kieron could sail past the Maelstrom. Do we in fact know of anyone who has taken a chaos bath besides Aliera? (Kieron? Sethra or Grita, genetics be damned? I don't recall purple stones in the latter two's presence. Well, Iceflame is blue...) It could be that Aliera's trip to the Greater Sea is a very rare event, perhaps aided by teleportation (say using an image from a traveller, or Morrolan's windows). I could also imagine that the purple stones are brought from some other land by means of trade. On the other hand, Sethra talks about the world (e.g. in _Issola_) very much as if the continent we know is the whole story. Note that long-distance travel was not easy under pre-Interregnum conditions. And note that the Eastern Mountains were probably designed to be nearly impassible, and the difficulty noted in _Phoenix_.