[Dragaera] Vlad as an Earth name

[Ray Lee]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:38 AM, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> wrote:

>
> On Wed, January 13, 2010 16:29, Alexx Kay wrote:
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> >> 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".
>
> Contact with the long-lived dragaerans is itself another possible factor,
> it seems to me.
>

The Orb certainly has memories going back to the dawn of the empire as well.