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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 9791190" data-attributes="member: 54629">Just revisiting this to set the record straight. Chronicles page references are as per the annotated version. I don’t have any of the other books mentioned.p 433: "Tanis saw none of this inner turmoil. He thought [Laurana] looked unusually pale and exceptionally beautiful this morning."p 655: "'Very well,' Laurana said, rising to her feet. Her face pale, she walked apart with the elven leader."[She's cold, wet, tired, having just survived a shipwreck caused by a white dragon and has just seen her brother struck down by a Silvanesti elf.]p 668: "Laurana sat in silence, not eating. Her face was pale beneath her tanned skin." [I'm just up to this point in the story, which is what prompted me to revisit this. She's upset because her father doesn't want to let Derek take the dragon orb to Sancrist. Shortly after, when her father is about to call her a human whore, she goes “white to the lips” and then faints.]p 852: "Her face was pale and grim, for the situation in Palanthas and in the Tower itself was dark and seemingly without hope."p 880: "Her face, pale with weariness, was alight with excitement."p 982: "Tas considered telling Laurana anyway, but then he thought of the elfmaid's face as it had appeared lately, wan and drawn from grief, worry, and lack of sleep ..."p 1046: "Seeing her pale, drawn face, Flint ..."p 1069: "... looking at Laurana's pale, rigid face ..."p 1234: "And now she knows where she is, Tanis thought in misery, seeing Laurana's face drain of color ... Her face deathly pale, Laurana turned back ..."p 1260: "Kit flicked a glance at the elfwoman, whose gaze was so fixed, whose skin was so pale she might have been a corpse."Not a single one of those passages suggests to me that Laurana has pale white skin. They are all descriptions of emotion-induced pallor. She's pale because she's tired, stressed, worried, frightened, etc. It's a natural part of the fight-or-flight response, which appears to work for elves the same way it does for us Earthlings. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937.png" title="Person shrugging    :person_shrugging:" data-shortname=":person_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />EDIT: Laurana clearly has a strong vasovagal response! (I have vasovagal syncope, so I recognize the signs. It became clear to me when I got to the part where she faints while arguing with her father and brother.)</blockquote>

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