Anonymous wrote:
I'd say that it was annexed far better than Taslamar was by Tzeetch.
Perhaps, but that's kind of missing the point of "Tzeechlamar", which wasn't really a military or political annexation as such, and more the halucination and delusions of the deranged mind of a sprite. Albeit vocally proclaimed throughout the realms at the time, as were his (completely unjustified) reasons for the deluded seizure.
But it's a humorous historical anecdote nonetheless, and a good way of remembering the character that (it seems with hindsight, unwittingly) funded the construction of the Tower of the Rose.
Though personally, I prefer to think of him as the only guy I ever beat in a duel. With a waterskin
But I say it belongs in the timeline. The anexation of the Empire, however? Pass, it was during one of my sojorns elsewhere. But from how it's described, it seems a different beast entirely.