> > >We have not seen any stories set when a house other than Phoenix was on the >throne. My understanding of the relative social statuses of the noble >Houses was their relative ascendancy in the Cycle. > lord of castle black was written in the dragon reign- -- Department of Biological Sciences Palumbi Lab Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University Blinks Oceanview Blvd Pacific Grove, Ca 93950 jalipaz at stanford.edu phone: 831-655-6210 Often statistics are used as drunken men use lampposts... for support rather than illumination. Albert Einstein