On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Sean Whalen wrote: > > --- Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > > 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. > > I don't know. Wouldn't the flowing water enter the chaos and never come > out? As I've mentioned recently, the physics of amorphia is beyond me. Does the wind that blows upon it get, well, vaporized? The ground it rests upon dissolved? > > I could also imagine that the purple stones are brought from some > > other land by means of trade. > > The Great Sea may be far away, but who would the Dragaeans trade with? Easterners who've traveled to the Farther East. Serioli. Cat-centaurs. Demons. Giant jhereg...