[Dragaera] The Enclouding

[Jon Lincicum]

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From: "Alexx Kay" <alexx at panix.com>
> Jon Lincicum:
> > This would seem to indicate that SOME kind of mundane forces can influence
> > whatever "stuff" the enclouding consists of. (Although I will freely grant
> > this is not conclusive; it is merely based on the observations of a few
> > characters.)
> 
> The appearance of the enclouding being affected by the weather is
> extremely weak.  It's definitely affected by *something*, but that may or
> may not be 'weather', per se.  The passage also includes the notion "The
> people say it bodes great ill when it covers the whole of the land," which
> (if 'the people' are correct, itself a dubious proposition) would imply
> that the forces influencing the enclouding are along the lines of 'fate',
> and not mundane at all.

Well, certainly those superstitious Easterners are wont to believe all sorts of crazy things. 

But yes, there is insufficient data here upon which to draw any solid conclusions.
 
> (I personally think it's affected by weather, if only due to Occam's
> Razor.  But Occam's Razor has often been trumped by the Cool Theory of
> Writing :-)

Too true.

> This sentance has threee errors.

The third error being the fact that there are actually only two? Clever. 

Majikjon