[LMB] TSR Speculations

[Paula Lieberman]

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From: <CatMtn at aol.com>
> In a message dated 12/29/2007 2:13:48 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> wawenri at msn.com writes:
>
> Another  note: Has anyone else noticed a similarity between the 
> Lakewalkers
> and  Pern's Dragonriders? The are both dangerous jobs that require 
> lifelong
> training. The dangers they guard against are not everyday  occurrences, 
> i.e.
> after a time people can doubt they exist. There are  different sexual 
> customs
> between Lakewalkers and Farmers as there are  between Dragonriders and
> Holders. Both groups have an institutional  arrogance about the other 
> groups
> they contact.

What was in the line in at least one of the Pern, where there was a 
description of Kylara/Kylora "eagerly looking forward to [marriage with some 
lord, one minute, and going off to Benden Weyr the next]" --and never 
returning, instead that character got used rather like an Evil Queen or some 
such, promiscuous as opposed to virtuous Lessa, and then being one of the 
main antagonists in Dragonquest....

>
> Mary:
>
> A point of difference is that the dragonriders took in young people from 
> the
> holds whom they thought had a good chance of impressing dragons.   There 
> was

That was almost exclusively boys, however, except when there was a queen 
egg....

> less separation of the two societies in that way--holders might have
> relatives and friends who had become dragonriders, and would be more 
> cooperative  as a
> result, as well as more likely to report problems.  The Farmers and
> Lakewalkers seemed to me to be much more separate as societies--not just 
> because of
> their customs, but because there was no chance of moving  from one group 
> to the
> other.