Re: Innaccurate Miles?

From: Trotsky <TTrotsky_at_...>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 09:33:22 +0100


Stephen Tempest:

>Following this up a week late... I suspect that most Dara Happan maps
>will actually *be* copies of maps originally drawn in the reign of
>Anaxial or Murharzarm, so they'll naturally include the pre-Great
>Darkness cities.
>
>After all, only barbarians, soldiers, merchants and similar low-life
>need to use maps to travel around from place to place. A Dara Happan
>noble uses a map to show him how the world is structured, and to
>reassure himself that everything is in order. Unfortunate
>disarrangements since the Flood and the Ice Age are best ignored, to
>preserve the harmony of Yelm's realm.
>

Personally, I don't think the Dara Happans are quite *that* conservative. That they'd use maps that haven't changed much since the reign of Emperor Khordavu (third century ST) I can see, but that they'd ignore the Great Darkness seems a stretch. Now, the Brithini on the other hand...

-- 
Trotsky
Gamer and Skeptic

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