On 23 Aug, 21:04, John Salerno <johnj...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I'm currently reading The Second Generation (I read the middle three
> stories a long time ago in the various Tales books) and last night I
> just re-read Raistlin's Daughter. I have a couple of questions about it:
>
> 1. The baby is born with golden eyes, apparently to make a connection
> with Raistlin. But did Raistlin have golden eyes, or just golden skin?
> And at any rate, these things were a result of the Test, not genetic, so
> why would that get passed on to a child? (I understand this is just
> supposed to be a "legend", and maybe I'm just being too analytical about
> it anyway.)
He did have golden eyes.
> 2. More im****tantly is this question: At the end of the story it is
> mentioned that ogres were the most beautiful race until they were
> seduced by evil and became the monsters we know them as now. But in the
> story before (Wanna Bet?) Palin tells the story of the creation of the
> original three races, and in the story he says that ogres were
> originally created as slaves to evil.
>
> So which is the true lore? Were ogres beautiful first or were they
> always the brutes that they are?
It is well established that the ogres of Krynn were beautiful before
they turned ugly. A few non-evil ogres managed to stay beautiful, and
those are the Irda.
Morten
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