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Iarwain · 01-23-2003, 07:32 PM

What about Five?!?!

We see 1,3,7,9 in the rings, and perhaps I'm forgetting something else really important, but other than the five wizards, what other occurence is there of five? Five is a very solid number, I must say, and as it is prime is likely to have some symbolic meaning.

Grinning,
Iarwain

01-23-2003, 07:32 PM	#7
Iarwain Pugnaciously Primordial Paradox Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Birnham Wood Posts: 800	What about Five?!?! We see 1,3,7,9 in the rings, and perhaps I'm forgetting something else really important, but other than the five wizards, what other occurence is there of five? Five is a very solid number, I must say, and as it is prime is likely to have some symbolic meaning. Grinning, Iarwain __________________ "And what are oaths but words we say to God?"