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Notes: TPG 12-14

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Tue Jul 16 17:00:10 PDT 2002

[page 119]

Map: desert of Suntra

[page 120]

Schools exist; expensive?

Dragaeran doesn't have words for "play" or "novel"?

Map: Caffissa (Athyra empress?) Library: first three stories
     of southern corner of Athyra wing (should wing be 
     capitalized?)

Map: Silver (? not Lyorn color) Library: outside Palace, near
     Lyorn Wing (not in House of the Lyorn?)

Map: Zerika Library: basement of Imperial Wing (probably not 
     really a wing)

[page 121]

Map: Yellow River, different ecology than other major rivers?

Phoenix more philosophical than Athyra??

Characteristics of tsalmoths; if I had time for the RPG,
that's the House my character would be in.

[page 122]

Map: small inns connected(??) to the Phoenix Wing

Tech note: colored(!) strips of paper used as bookmarks

"ten thousand wealthiest nobles": what's the population of
the Empire?

No tax on expenditures for "cultural matters".  It sounds as
if you're taxed on what you spend, instead of (in addition 
to?) what you earn.

[page 125]

Fricorith: old North-western tongue, "nearly the end of
winter"
This language most common for writing books?

[page 126]

Marish'Chala contraction for Marishori Cvorunn Chalionara

Marishori: ONW for "keeper of trust"

Cvorunn -> Kvirinun: Serioli for "time of melting snows"

Chalionara -> Shuloon!ra: Serioli for "to arrive prematurely"

Map: far Eastern keep of Redface

[page 127]

Map: Zerika Library, narrow circular stairway to ground
     level, maze of Imperial Wing, around South 
     Cornerstones, Long Corridor, Phoenix Courtyard, inn 
     where Frai died is hour's run away

Map: labyrinth, Imperial living quarters, numerous tower
      chambers

No furniture in this room?

[page 128]

*This* is the meeting between Lytra and Seodra

"Have you a god in your pocket," or are just happy to see 
me?  :)

[page 131]

"my arts have revealed that a certain individual has just
discovered" sorcery? even so, how? and how did she learn so 
much about Khaavren without learning how he found out?

[page 132]

Right war, wrong war?

Sethra is friends with these two?

[page 133]

Candlebuds again

[page 136]

Map: Diar-by-the-Bennaat

[page 139]

Everlasting Fountain of Prince Westmount?

[page 141]

More killings: Lady Yurrota (assassinated?), Gerand of Kor 
by Lord Porishtev

[page 143]

Illista is Marchioness of the Twicetied Hills

--KG