[Dragaera] Pecans [Insignificant _Dzur_ spoiler]

[dovekie]

> On 10-Jan-07, at 7:37 PM, Philip Hart wrote:
>
> > Are we still officially spoiling _Dzur_?  Hmm, it's been 5 months,
> > and there's no ppb edition, so I guess so.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I was eating pecans the other day and recalled that on pg 244 of
> > _Dzur_,
> > Vlad idly remarks that "Pecans don't grow near Adrilankha, they
> > have to
> > be imported from, uh, from somewhere.  They're ridiculously expensive.
> > I think that's why I like them so much."
> >
> > I had thought this just reflected the cost of transportation.  But
> > those costs ought to be distance-independent, or nearly.  Perhaps Vlad
> > has been in the middle of nowhere for so long, hardly able to
> > teleport,
> > that he's forgotten how the future works.
>
>On 1/10/07, Alain Feeny <feeny at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> The location where pecans are grown is a closely guarded secret,
> allowing a few individuals a monopoly on the market, hence the
> ridiculous prices.

Pecan trees are one of the few life-forms on Dragaera that have a
natural resistance to sorcery, thus rendering them difficult to grow
and therefor expensive. The distance thing is just a coincidence.

-- 
"I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."