Sorry. I need to stop answering comments first thing in the morning when I'm in a bad mood.
SCSF: Well, no problem. I could stand to take my own advice better, too...
As it happens, right near me they've recently built a new bridge over a major body of water. They dammed up the river first because people have to go down and install the footings and such in the water's bed.
That makes sense, of course!
Well, here's the thing. You don't actually have to physically cross the magic bridge to be denied entry by it. In book three Gorge comes to kidnap the Sue Baby, but even though he's on a flying mount he cannot reach Sigholt itself until DragonStar fools the bridge into letting him pass. So even if you build a new bridge, the original presumably still has the power to keep you out.
Ah, that does explain it, and it would be a large security hole not to let that happen.
This does have me thinking... the power of the Lake of Life presumably comes from the spaceship beneath it rather than from the specific water flowing into it, does it not? It has to, since the Nordra's water has no special properties and yet Grail Lake is still magical. Since that is the case, any large amount of water in the bed of the Lake of Life should allow the bridge to form again (and, since it is a lake bed, the water would collect there).
Hmmm, looking at the relevant chapter, it seems that the warm spring does matter, since Jack tells Belial and Magariz to wait for Sigholt to warm up, which seems more than a little like nonsense to me. Either way, it seems the bridge is dependent on that, which does silence most of my complaints. I do wonder why no one took issue with the duke's doings; this was during the time of Icarii rule, after all, and I imagine some would not have liked this.
That is not even to mention that I am very curious as to how the Lake of Life was "drained" by blocking the spring. Even if it has an outflow, the water would eventually drop below that of the outflow, and then it would slowly evaporate. If it were to be "drained", I think the best way might be to set up something on the edge of the lake to pump out the water and then dump it somewhere on the surrounding land.
I frankly think that building a command post for the Duke of Ichtar just outside of Sigholt would have been much easier, but that would make sense, I guess.
Edit: Looking further, I see that the water of the Lake of Life is apparently "steaming", so there would not be all that much life in there, and building a bridge would be challenging, to say the least. Such a moat does make for a wonderful defence...
It might actually have been a reference to WolfStar, since he went through the magic gate thingy and is much more of a "wayfarer" than Drago ever was, but WolfStar doesn't get redeemed either so.. I got nothin'.
Well, "Pilgrim" and "Crusader" do fit with what Drago(nStar) does in those books, so I am quite certain it was meant to be him.
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Sorry. I need to stop answering comments first thing in the morning when I'm in a bad mood.
SCSF: Well, no problem. I could stand to take my own advice better, too...
As it happens, right near me they've recently built a new bridge over a major body of water. They dammed up the river first because people have to go down and install the footings and such in the water's bed.
That makes sense, of course!
Well, here's the thing. You don't actually have to physically cross the magic bridge to be denied entry by it. In book three Gorge comes to kidnap the Sue Baby, but even though he's on a flying mount he cannot reach Sigholt itself until DragonStar fools the bridge into letting him pass. So even if you build a new bridge, the original presumably still has the power to keep you out.
Ah, that does explain it, and it would be a large security hole not to let that happen.
This does have me thinking... the power of the Lake of Life presumably comes from the spaceship beneath it rather than from the specific water flowing into it, does it not? It has to, since the Nordra's water has no special properties and yet Grail Lake is still magical. Since that is the case, any large amount of water in the bed of the Lake of Life should allow the bridge to form again (and, since it is a lake bed, the water would collect there).
Hmmm, looking at the relevant chapter, it seems that the warm spring does matter, since Jack tells Belial and Magariz to wait for Sigholt to warm up, which seems more than a little like nonsense to me. Either way, it seems the bridge is dependent on that, which does silence most of my complaints. I do wonder why no one took issue with the duke's doings; this was during the time of Icarii rule, after all, and I imagine some would not have liked this.
That is not even to mention that I am very curious as to how the Lake of Life was "drained" by blocking the spring. Even if it has an outflow, the water would eventually drop below that of the outflow, and then it would slowly evaporate. If it were to be "drained", I think the best way might be to set up something on the edge of the lake to pump out the water and then dump it somewhere on the surrounding land.
I frankly think that building a command post for the Duke of Ichtar just outside of Sigholt would have been much easier, but that would make sense, I guess.
Edit: Looking further, I see that the water of the Lake of Life is apparently "steaming", so there would not be all that much life in there, and building a bridge would be challenging, to say the least. Such a moat does make for a wonderful defence...
It might actually have been a reference to WolfStar, since he went through the magic gate thingy and is much more of a "wayfarer" than Drago ever was, but WolfStar doesn't get redeemed either so.. I got nothin'.
Well, "Pilgrim" and "Crusader" do fit with what Drago(nStar) does in those books, so I am quite certain it was meant to be him.