>Although CHDP (p 148) says the crimson bat attacked whitewall & was
>driven off in 1619, OiD (p 9) clearly states the bat's attack occured
>as the culmination of a year-long magical assault in late 1621 (p. 9)
>i've assumed the OiD reference as the accurate one if only for the
>reason it is a etic narrator resource rather than an emic story
>written 20 years after the fact.
<gumbles that etic + emic = emetic>
>alternatively it could be an error, but i've heard no-one say so...
>could anyone explain?
Whatever works for your campaign I guess. Since Whitewall's Fall isn't actually described, you can use it either way. If you decide that the bat was repelled in 1619 and are confronted with further references that the bat was repelled in 1621, an answer might be that the Lunars deliberately postdated the repulsion of the bat to the fall of whitewall rather than the initial siege to lessen the embarrassment involved.
--Peter Metcalfe
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