Nils asked:
>>>So how old are the oldest surviving Kralorelan accounts of 'Yelm'? A lot
>>>older than 100ST I'd say.
Peter:
>>Oldest surviving? No older than the Sun Stop say I. Shang after all
>>took good care to torch all the books, laughing with glee. The Kralori
^^^
Nils replies:
>I don't know what a Kralorelan 'all' is percentage-wise, but in this
>case I'm pretty sure it's less than 100%. There are also writings which
>are a great deal harder to burn than those painted on paper or silk.
I'm sure that Shang-Hsa was intelligent enough to order Rock Inscriptions to be defaced with 1' chisels to stop people reading them.
>What I'm saying is that trying hard as he might have, I don't think
>Shang-Hsa managed to destroy all previous records.
And even if he did burn them all, he didn't destroy the memory of what was actually said. In case the 'Fahrenheit 451' reference slipped you by, think of how the Library was saved in 'Small Gods'. Most of the recovered documents in Kralorela via this method.
Adrian White:
>Arkat the Duck :
>Is this really in v01.n088? I can find no hint of this tale there. I would
>search the archives but i cant get hold of a netscape license
My apologies. v01.n288 is the one you want.
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