On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Robert Sallade wrote: > 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. Sorry - I was using "industrial" loosely - in the Dragaeran context sorcery is industry. In the snippage I said the updated Orb might be "a cleaner technology".