From:	Max Rible slothman@*********.org
Subject:	Immortal-spotting and "Harlequin's Back"
Date:	Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:50:21 -0700

At 06:52 7/28/99 -0700, Number Ten Ox wrote:
>I was rereading "Harlequin's Back" in preparation to running it, and
>came up with an interesting conundrum.
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>Lady Rose: Lady Rose is clearly a Blood Elf, given the pun on the name and
>the way she keeps dabbing blood off her face and neck. Problem is, *which*
>Blood Elf is she? The only Blood Elf I am aware of is
>Alachia/Hecate/Sheila Blavatska... and I'm sorry, I can't envision Alachia
>referring to *someone else* (Luna) as "the witch-queen".

Alachia is not Hecate/Sheila Blatavaska. Hecate/Blatavaska is the
"Queen of the Heavenherds" referred to in the Theran Empire sourcebook.

>Luna: Based on our conclusions about Lady Rose, she would be Alachia. Ehran
>the scribe is Alachia's younger brother? Or is she speaking figuratively?

That would be the Queen of the Heavenherds, whose name I can't recall
offhand...

>Ronin: no idea. Lung? Masaru? If so, the great dragons are sorely
>under-represented.

I wouldn't expect a dragon to show up as a masterless warrior...
that would imply that they had peers with masters.

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