must kill this one... the reason sorcery got so advanced was simply this... people had essentially been lifting sorcerous weights during the interregnum, trying to do fractions of what they could before... the people themselves had more knowledge due to the intense period of study etc etc... andy > > > > Question- Where does it say the Orb was improved while > > it was in the Path of the Dead? Where am I missing > > this little kernel of knowledge? > > > > > Sorcery was limited pre-interregnum. Teleportation was very hardso as not to > be practical..Witness that in PG and FHYA Khavvren and Crew travel the Empire > on horseback. Revivication was not possible. either. My guess would be that > the Orb was somehow enhanced Post-Interregnum because where there used to be ONE > sea of Chaos now there are Two. Which would mean one EXTRA source of Amorphia > for the Orb to draw on. Actually this was said in one of the books, but for > the life of me I cant remember which one > Maybe Phoenix or one of the Khavvren Romances. >