[Dragaera] Some speculation on Spellbreaker

[Kenneth Gorelick]

On Sep 29, 2008, at 5:28 PM, Jon Lincicum wrote:

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> From: Michael Wojcik <mwojcik at newsguy.com>
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>> Yes. I think this makes a good narrative basis for everything we know
>> about the Jenoine. My guess is that it went something like this:
>>
>> - Long ago, the Jenoine discover amorphia on Dragaera, and decide to
>> study it.
>
> I am utterly unconvinced that the Jenoine came to Dragaera to study  
> amorphia.
>
> If they had, then I think they would have a better understanding of  
> it now, and would have had a better strategy for dealing with the  
> Lords of Judgment than tapping the lesser sea.
>
> I think it's far more likely that the very first amorphia on  
> Dragaera was created by Vera (and possibly others who became Gods)  
> and its creation was critical not only in their destruction (as  
> Sethra indicates in /Issola/) but was also put to use to prevent  
> their return (likely it was Vera or the other Gods who aided Zerika  
> I in the creation of the Orb).
>
> The Jenoine, from available evidence, came to Dragaera to study  
> humans, and their psychic abilities, and in the process created the  
> Dragaerans. Who knows how long this process lasted? But it  
> apparently took quite a long time, and created countless tribes of  
> Dragaerans. If the Jenoine had had access to amorphia for all this  
> time, you would think that they would understand it better, and have  
> no problem wielding it against those who now protect Dragaera from  
> their influence.
>
> Amorphia is the reason they left, not the reason they came.
>

Per Issola, you are exactly correct. From p. 37 of my hardcover  
edition, "...Verra and a few others, who sabotaged [the Jenoines']  
work, who created the Great Sea of Amorphia, who unleashed upon the  
world that which we call sorcery..."
Ken