time travel

From: David Dunham (dunham@pensee.com)
Date: Wed 10 Jul 1996 - 20:09:51 EEST


Peter Metcalfe recently answered me

> >I will point out that Lunar heroquesters (or Travel and Journey
> >explorers) such as Valare Addi did in fact heroquest as time travel.
>
> But they did not _physically_ visit the past. They merely visited a
> place on the Otherworld which mirrored the people as they lived then.
> If the Lunars left an ironspear point, then the spearpoint will
> remain in the Otherworld rather than turn up in the city of Carantes.

Perhaps, though Greg mentioned that some T&Jers brought artifacts back from
the past. In fact, Valare Addi is one such -- her stick.

And I thought we had several examples of warriors "going back" to fight
battles like I Fought We Won or Castle Blue, which were noted by historians
of the time as mysterious spirits or something.

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