At 11:47 AM 7/23/04, Philip Hart wrote: >[possible eentsie spoiler for the Piroiad] > > Heck, we still don't know what the Overcast actually /is/, do we? > > What parts of sunlight does it block? How much? > >I'm under the impression that we know the Overcast is industrial >pollution - I think it is observed to recede during the Interregnum. I thought the Overcast was analogous with CFC emissions. Namely the use of sorcery creating an atmospheric residue; a by-product of the transformed amorphia where the energy is used but not all the matter is transformed to energy. If it were simply industrial in nature I don't think it would have lessened during the Interregnum. The Easterners are roughly equal technologically so the Overcast should extend over the mountains and the Island nations. The difference? The non-use of sorcery.