(slow ketchup... I mean, catch-up) --- Elizabeth Harper <harpere at gmail.com> wrote: I've gotten the idea from > somewhere (Paarfi?) that he was born during the interregnum, which > leads one to wonder how he could possibly have any working knowledge > of sorcery. Are we talking Elder Sorcery here? And that doesn't seem > right, either. There's a conversation between Vlad and Morrolan (in > Jhereg) discussing Morrolan's "hobby" of pre-Empire sorcery. When > asked how long he's been studying it, Morrolan replies that it's been > "rather an interest of mine for a hundred years or so." Which doesn't > seem like long enough for him to have known it then, even though I'm > not exactly sure how far out the events of the Vlad stories are from > the beginning of Zerika's reign. In LOCB he's only beginning to study sorcery (Ch. 65). In the East he didn't even know he was an "elf" (Dragaeran) till his meeting with Teldra, at age around 200 or so. All his magic was witchcraft. -- Mark A. Mandel http://cracksandshards.com a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com