On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:49:06AM -0500, Timothy Nelson wrote: > Can a parallel be drawn between the Divine Right of Kings, here on earth, > and the grant that the Gods lend the Imperium (through the orb)? . . . Yes and no. Yes, they're similar because the claim of divine right by Cycle is pretty similar to that of divine right by Deity. No, they're different because the Dragaeran Gods are a lot more likely to enforce it than the Terran ones. :-)