where actual evidence had been a bit sparse he had, in the best traditions of the keen ethnic historian, inferred from revealed self-evident wisdom* *Made it upand extrapolated from associated sources** **had read a lot of stuff that other people had made up, too.

It takes a long time for people like Vorbis to die. They leave echoes in history.

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.