>Me> It doesn't sound right because Minaryth would just
> > say that his child died of fever rather than heat.
>You're assuming that "Whitewall falls, Ashart dies of heat" has the two
>events in chronolgical order. There's no guarantee it is.
Standard practice notwithstanding. Consequential information in two sentences is presented elsewhere in the record. For example:
1613 Battle of Orlanth the Loser. Kallai Rockbuster flees in
fear.
Should we assume that Kallai fled before the battle rather than afterwards?
1625 Olaront raises a dragon. King Blackmor is destroyed, [...]
Should we assume that because the information is conveyed in two sentences that Blackmor was destroyed before the Dragonrise?
>What if the death was before the fall of Whitewall?
In which case he, being a normal person, would have written:
1621 - Ashart dies. Whitewall falls.
>And I still maintain that it is unreasonable to claim that because
>something isn't in KoS it can't be important
Well, I haven't actually made such a claim.
--Peter Metcalfe
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