[Dragaera] _Iorich_ random brief comments (spoilers!)

[Damien Sullivan]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:08:50PM -0800, Philip Hart wrote:
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> On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Alexx Kay wrote:
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>>> a
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>> Also, a person might be willing to fight their way out of prison, where
>> they wouldn't be willing to use Elder Sorcery to destroy the prison.
>> Especially when what they're charged with in the first place is Elder
>> Sorcery...
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> The GWs are powered by ES, no?  Or do we not know?

I think Sethra's speech in Issola implies they're (and maybe Morganti in
general) ES made manifest, and almost certainly made by it (and maybe
other abilities.)  That may or may not be the same as "powered by".

>>> Pg. 113/4 In Dragaeran "Hawk" is something like "raptor", of which there
>>> are various sorts named in Fenarian.  It's odd to have a house named
>>> after something vague.

'Vague' is a matter of what you're used to.  'Hawk' is vague; there's no
one species of hawk, but lots of species, and the differences between
hawks, eagles, and falcons would be lost on most people.  (Owls as
round-faced and nocturnal stand out more, at least to us... of course,
Dragaerans have athyra.)  'raptor' doesn't seem unusable to me.

And these are a people who supposedly don't distinguish between wine and
brandy.

>> Perhaps in the language of House Hawk, there are finer distinctions.
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> I would think that such distinctions would percolate into the common  
> tongue.

Only if the users of the common tongue commonly give a damn about the
distinctions.  Lots of fields have distinction-driven jargon that aren't
part of common language (or go horribly awry if they do.)

-xx- Damien X-)