----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Newell" <bryann at bryann.net> To: "Dragaera Mailing List" <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 6:48 PM Subject: V.S.S. Dzur Mountain > If the Orb prevents natural disasters, why wasn't the eruption at Dzur > Mountain prevented? Especially since it appears to have caused quite a bit > of damage. > > It seems to me that either the Orb couldn't, or the Emperor/Empress chose > not to stop it... Set that aside for a moment. > Not sure of the book, but there is a reference to Iceflame that states the only other artifacts that can match it are the Orb, and Godslayer. If Sethra caused the eruption, then concentrated Iceflames power on blocking the Orb. . . > > If you're willing to make the plunge into unreasonable speculation, it > occurred to me that the above fits in nicely with the suggestion made on > this list (I'm sorry, I don't remember who made it) that Dzur Mountain might > be some kind of spacecraft. One would presume the engines would be in the > rear, so perhaps the "eruption" was actually the firing of its engines? > I don't care for the spacecraft speculation myself, I think it is more likely to be a Jenoine construct designed for experimentation with amorphea. Kind of an 8-track version of the Orb. (which would make the Orb an I-pod, I suppose) Jeff G