Sea and Stone wrote:fwiw, I read the First Chronicles a LONG time ago, b/4 the 2nd set was published, and they had such an effect on me that my wife had my wedding ring made of white gold.

I gave my husband a white gold ring too! He's probably the only SRD fan in history to have read the Second Chronicles and not the First.
[Oh, I should explain--my KW name is fictitious twice over; I'm a female flatlander in RL.]