In an attempt to keep things going here, could we pass the time until LOCB comes out discussing some of the more obscure houses? For instance, what the heck do Chreothas do? What would a Chreotha reign be like? From Mark Mandel's page on the Houses, we learn that the Chreotha is shy or easily flustered, short?, dark?, has curly brown hair, flat features, pretty low class, and is a craftsman and a tailor. The lines referring to Chreotha are: Sly chreotha weaves his net Tread lightly near thine own traps. How weaving nets and setting traps leads to being a craftsman or tailor I dunno. Well, the weaving part I guess. We don't know the colours. Chreotha comes after Iorich, and just before Yendi. While they're low class, one assumes (rightly? I dunno.) that they are still nobility. So what would a Chreotha reign entail? A sort of low-grade Orca style mercantilism? How would this lead to a Yendi reign? Lord, now I'm trying to figure out the Yendi style of rule. I'm getting the headache..... -- lazarus "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American Public." -- Theodore Roosevelt