Hey all... I was reading _PotD_ and came across a couple items of interest that left me in a bit of a state of uncertainty. First, there was the matter of assorted references to "Eleventh Vallista reign" "fifteenth Tsalmoth reign" "fifteenth Chreotha reign" etc... I thought that the Cycle has only gone through one complete revolution, ending with Tortaalik and being reborn into Zerika. Even if Tortaalik was the end of the second Cycle, I'm still at a loss to explain numbers that are in the teens.... It also says during the brief history of the Sorceress in Green that she did some fairly impressive stuff back in other Reigns--and while she *is* called the "oldest living" something or other, putting her all the way back into other reigns REALLY makes her old... This next question is just a simple matter of curiosity: Why did you, Steve, choose to not have Morrolan accompany Zerika to Deathsgate? It would have been so easy to write them in, especially having had them pass so close to each other, that excluding him, especially after Morrolan's comments in _Taltos_ seems peculiar. My next question is to the list, as well as Steve. Can a person become impregnated in the Paths of the Dead? Because I was thinking about how two hidden can create one in the open, and I was thinking, wouldn't it be symbolic if in going down into the paths of the dead, the Phoenix is thus reborn by some dead Phonixes' seed? *shrugs* Just a few thoughts that accompanied my reading of the book. Jon _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail