"that would be so many houses, how would you feed all those people"

a good question, Vanye

COMPLETE sidebar but holy crap, Vanye is a long running RP name I utilize when I want to play a plucky halfling, wow. Never thought to see it out in the wild. I think I originally got it from an out of print fantasy book I was loaned as a teenager by a friend of my mom's.

that may have been the same one! Gate of Ivrel came out in I think '79

there are four total

Nhi Vanye is not a plucky halfling but I feel like he'd appreciate sharing a name with one

Oh that's a character and not the author?? Holy shit it COULD be the same one. The timeline matches up, because it would have to be an OLD book to be loaned to me in my early teens in the mid-90s by an older lady.

Yeah, the series is the Morgaine Cycle by CJ Cherryh

If so, that'd be wild. I NEVER thought I'd encounter that book again, despite the impact it had on my RP life.

Vanye is Morgaine's tragically hot sidekick

Is it fantasy?

yep!

well, planetary romance

sci fi in fantasy clothes

Man, I really wonder

I can't ever know for sure because my memory of the plot is simply not there. I just remember he was rogueish and had adventures

he definitely does have adventures

The Morgaine Stories - Wikipedia

I was a little off, it was the third one came out in 79