Almost... Kaiser comes indirectly from Big J through the office of Caeser in the late Empire (when the Emperors were called Augustus, and their understudies were called Caesars). The Russian Czar is derived in the same way.
>> >I can't see how the tribesmen build advanced bridges.
>>
>> More primitive people than the Orlanthi have erected Stonehenge,
>> the Pyramids amongst other things. Thus I fail to see how a few
>> circular arched bridges are beyond Orlanthi competence.
>
>And aren't the roads always described as being magical? (King of Dragon
>Pass will portray the building of at least some of the roads, and magic is
>very much present.) Surely Iron Age technology assisted by magic can build
>decent roads and bridges.
Well, the Romans (an Iron age Technology) did pretty well at roads & other bits of engineering. The main sticking point isn't the technology per se, but in getting enough workers to work long enough to get the job done. The Orlanthi are probably "burst" workers - they can do incredible amounts of work in a short time (like getting a crop in), but don't work well for long stretches of time (like the 8-5 office workers of modern times). It is analogous to Celtic warfare - try to beat them at the first charge, because you probably won't be able to win a toe-to-toe slugging match.
Weren't at least some of the roads built with "dwarven help"? What if that help came in the form of jolanti workmen, rather than Dwarven Engineers?
Roderick
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