[Dragaera] Vlad as an Earth name

[Jon%20Lincicum]

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From: "Philip Hart" <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> 
To: "Dragaera List" <dragaera at dragaera.info> 
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 2:46:50 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: Re: [Dragaera] Vlad as an Earth name 



On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Alexx Kay wrote: 

>>> 
>>>> There's a few new ones in Iorich and some of them are Earth names, too. 
>>>> 
>>>> I guess a good follow up question, if it hasn't been discussed before, 
>>>> is WHY the Easterners have managed to keep their Earth names for so 
>>>> long. The answer probably ties into the same reason they have kept 
>>>> many other Earth-originating cultural aspects, such as knocking on 
>>>> doors and Hungarian cooking. :) 
>>> 
>>> My personal theory on this is that contact with long-lived Dragaerans has 
>>> encouraged humans to make efforts to preserve their own history and 
>>> traditions to a greater extent. 
>>> 
>>> 250,000 years (at least) does seem like a long time to maintain some of 
>>> these cultural aspects, otherwise. 
>> 
>> Given what we know about human history on Earth, that degree of continuity 
>> over 250,000 years is not *remotely* plausible -- without some serious 
>> mitigating factors. Two that come to mind are "the gods" and "The Cycle". 
> 
> 
>Well, there's the translator too. Maybe Vlad -> Blad -> Blod -> ... -> 
>Myxtlplyx but SKZB went back to the starting point for familiarity a la 
>Tolkien. 

Or maybe every Cycle or so, the Dragons lead an army to the east and completely destroy all the human beings, and then they have to import a new batch from Hungary? 

Majikjon