Dara Happa and Jonatela.

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From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Fri 19 Aug 1994 - 08:51:09 EEST

Devin quotes and queries:
> "You six shall be the first Aristocrats. Others will follow, and you will
> instruct them and lead them"

> Question: Who are these six? They cannot be humans, since they number only to
> (Man and Woman).

Ah, but it doesn't say only two were created. The only mention of number is that "instead of one _type_ of being they created two" (my emphasis). I'd assume that some quantity between twelve and lotsnlots were created. Now granted, all this stuff about them making the first Man and the second, Woman is a tad confusing, but then, people writing myths are rarely sent on decent tech writing courses.

Joerg rationalises feverishly:
> If Harrek's sojourns into "Jonatela" refer to Karstall and Timms, he could
> just manage to be moonboated into the Lunar Empire, take part in a couple
> of Dart Competitions and return to Rathorela by 1609. In that case, no
> timeline problem I can think of.

I dunno if there is or isn't a timeline problem (heaven knows, my Riverjoin snippet took a liberty or three), but I'm skeptical about the Timms part of any fix: wasn't Timms only partially thawed to _Jonatela_ before its borders to the outside world thawed, rather than vice versa?

Alex.

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