> > 1.) Not to far into Phoenix or maybe Teckla, Vlad enters his apartment and > finds Cawti reading one of Paarfi's "Histories"... Since The Pheonix Guards, > Five Hundred Years After, and The Viscount Trilogy were "published" later, > after the end of the Pheonix reign, what was the subject of the book Cawti > was reading? Just happen to be reading TPG at the moment; according to the 'title page,' it was 'Submitted To the Imperial Library... [in] the Three Hundred and Ninth year of the Glorious Reign of The Empress Zerika the Fourth.' N.