9:46 Dragon ~ The Nature of Conflict (OOC)

It appears I failed to mention in the character thread that Lavinia is a former, not current, Spirit Healer. Part of her character arc is dealing with the spirit abandoning her after she killed the Comte and Comtess de Fontein. 

I just wanted to make sure I added this clarification in case there was any confusion. She is still a specialist in the Creation and Spirit schools.

How long do you think it takes to travel the Brecilian passage to get to Gwaren, by wagon? A day trip or an overnight one or just a few hours?

Sorry to contradict you but I think it would be at least an overnight trip by wagon, depending on where you are actually starting from. Wagons tend to be slow as the animals pulling them only travel at a walk. The land through the forest will not be entirely flat either and the roads may be in a poor state of repair as well.

Distances on the map will be far greater on the ground. I wouldn't place too much store by the amount of time taken by people in their novels because I really don't think they work out realistic amounts of time involved. Bearing in mind Thedas stretches from the frozen wastes of the south to the steamy jungles of The Donarks, Seheron and Par Vollen, we are talking of an area stretching from the equivalent of our Arctic Circle to the equator. This will put it into perspective for you. Ferelden may be the equivalent of Anglo Saxon England in culture but in size it equates more to France at the very least. To my mind it would take 7 days to travel from Denerim to Gwaren on horseback and more like 10 days by wagon train. People may actually prefer to travel by sea as with a good ship it could be much quicker. A lot would depend on wind direction and currents along the coast.

I used to have some calculations that someone had done of distances vs time taken once. I'll see if I still have them.

Sorry to have messed things up but you did ask. If you go over on to the Sins of the Father OOC thread I have posted the hyper-link to maps with spoilered text underneath, from a site where the person took the trouble to calculate distances. I think they are probably fairly accurate. I don't think someone would have gone to that much trouble without doing a bit of research. Anywhere not shown with a calculation can fairly easily be worked out from using data for somewhere that looks similar on the map.

NeverlandHunter regarding the season, I've decided to change it to the spring.

gervaise21 it's your turn. Nimlowyn is on vacation and won't be back until maybe Monday and heathenoxman is busy at the moment. I might do a post but it'll be just be Cyrus waiting for Lavinia.

Nice post NeverlandHunter!

Sins of the Father:
bsn.boards.net/thread/12791/sins-father-45-dragon-ooc

The two stories above are prequels to The Nature of Conflict. I must stress that they are NOT required reading but they do share worlds and Nature of Conflict will have vague references to them.

The characters in Thief do not overlap, therefore I don't see how it could be a prequel. The story here has no relation at all to Thief.

And you promised me that you weren't dragging your own Willis story into another story, it was just a character set up for Cyrus.

This must be the case, Smiles, because I know you are an honest person. Right?

Thiefs escape is, sadly a failed thread, with a failed story that will not be completed. Its story was nonsensical, and the thread only got as far as it did because we were trying to help you. No characters in it should be mentioned anywhere else.

 It has no business in this story, which promises to be well crafted by the talented new writers that its involving. Adding irrelevant details to it would be doing the current participants a disservice.

Why is it a prequel?

What would you call an unfinished RP story where all the writers have resigned from the thread? The story will not be completed. In Kailyn's history, these events did not occur. So how can this be a prequel when it never happened?

Stick to the story in this thread. Thief is irrelvant. There's nothing to mention. There can be no overlap unless you insist on forcing one. That would be a disservice to everyone else.

I wont post here again, its disrupting this thread. my apologies to the other writers.