Mark A Mandel writes:
>And we really shouldn't take the Phoenix reigns that cover the change of
>Great Cycle, including the Interregnum, as evidence for "normal"
>Phoenix reigns, that is, Phoenix reigns within a single Great Cycle.
Good point.
My guess would be that at the end of a Great Cycle, there are two
Phoenix reigns, one decadent and ending in ruin, one reborn and rising
to glory, wheras at the end of a -normal- cycle, a single Phoenix
reign will generally begin ascendant and rising to glory, but end
decadent, at which point war starts and the house of the Dragon takes
over.
But while we have evidence for what a Great Cycle change looks like (with
an incredibly small sample size), we have no evidence for what a
normal Cycle changeover is like...except that Adron clearly -expected-
a Dragon reign to follow the Phoenix, lending credence to my theory
that the double phoenix thing only happens at the end of a Great
Cycle.
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