Re: The Fall of Whitewall

From: Alison Place <alison_place_at_v5wHmtZUyJthjLRhab4ZFbOYWodYdeezrKkJJ8ihwie20nuD_GIrXzK6YHNxxZUOBX>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:25:12 -0700 (PDT)

• ttrotsky2 <TTrotsky_at_AL_ZR6FtV3gr_uv8YrU4SJGOLNQScn0R2Q79IpPMoI_SmN6qbOBUfHyfDe25_iwRegpI0CZJrGUEwRx_vdsMQqA.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
  > > Alison:
  > > Their own officers would be telling them that
  > > their enemies' magic was kaput. That the weather
  was
  > > abnormal, don't know. But I'd think that they'd
  put
  > > two and two together as time went on. Firstly, it
  > > took years to take out Whitewall. So the veterans
  > > would know what to expect come winter.
  >
  > I agree, but I'd have thought that knowing what to
  expect come
  > *summer* would be even more relevant. The point
  about the
  > Fimbulwinter, after all, is that it remains freezing
  cold and windless
  > for the entire year. When you're in the middle of
  what ought to be
  > summer, but there's still snow on the ground, and
  the air is so still
  > that clouds don't even move across the sky, surely
  you've got to be
  > pretty dense not to figure that *something* pretty
  weird is going on?
  > Especially if you were there the year before...
  

Right. Yes. Damn right! (Must have had my dense cap on...)

Oh, even sillier or stranger ideas from my hubbie:

1. Extreeemely limited effect. Only a few clans affected. Therefore not worth mentioning or glossed over in the official histories.
2. Lunar propaganda, claiming a huge effect after the Fall of Whitewall. In fact, the whole OiD series is just Lunar propaganda.
3. Only the significant rebels are caught in this effect. It's actually all a huge HQ that the Lunars trap them in, even when the Orlanthi think they're back in the Real World.
4. (The best) FW was actually a Sartari own goal. They attempted to interrupt the Kalikos Icebreaker ceremonies to starve the Lunar Heatlands, and blew it badly. Reallly, really badly. Therefore no skalds, Lawspeakers, chroniclers or bards were allowed to mention it, on pain of death. Then, what few surreptitious records were made vanish during the Era of Illiteracy. This makes good sense, considering the Orlanthi do control the weather.

     In this context, "Ashart dies of heat." is actually a reverse code for "Ashart dies of cold."

Ian (Alison scripsit.)  

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