Shards and gaps

Peter Westlake · 09 Jul 1998, 22:49 · from urth-v0016.mbox · original

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From: Peter Westlake <peter at harlequin.co.uk>
Subject: (urth) Shards and gaps
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 23:49:37 +0100
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At 20:41 1998/07/09 GMT, mantis wrote:
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>Likewise we know little about Nessus.  Who is the ruler of this
>sprawling city?  I'll bet that few have figured out that it is an
>archon, and that he probably allows each quarter to be run by local
>people.  But where is the archon's palace, how many are in his court?
>And what was the Wall built for?

And why is the area near the wall kept clear? Someone suggests
it is to allow the city to expand, but Baldanders says it isn't
for that. Later we learnt that the city was razed, so maybe the
gaps were bomb sites, cleared by war, but that doesn't explain
why they are not rebuilt.

I still want to know what Agilus' ribbon was for. One of the
more mystifying shards.

SBear.

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