<A reign lasts from 17^2 to 17^3 years = 289 to 4913.* At this same point they talk about the make up of the callendar. This always surprised me, well just look at this. 30 hours in a day. 5 days a week. 17 weeks in a month. 17 months in a year. (correct me if I got something wrong here.) thats almost 4 earth years in a year. (1445). If you figure it in hours (I'm bored and had a calculator) its 1806.25 24 hour periods in a year. Does anybody else think this is a really long time? even the "short lived" easterners have life spans 5 times greater than ours. No real point here, just something I picked up the first time I read Taltos or whatever book this is in. I probably mixed something up somewhere that will make me look stupid. I lent my copy of Taltos to my step-brother so I couldn't check. Anyone else care to verify this? --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software