On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 05:38:15PM -0700, David Goldfarb wrote: > Her relative youth, and also the social unacceptability of cross-House > marriage. She can't marry cross-House, and she can't marry within > her own House, so she pretty much can't marry at all. Hmm... I wonder if this is why the Empress Norathar will lift the ban on cross-House marriages. It's clear that when she takes the throne, Zerika could still be alive. Heck, that might even fit into the whole 'decadent phoenix' bit -- Zerika abdicates under fire rather than give up her Eastern lover. -- "Offense thieves -- they take it when it isn't offered." -- another definition by Tom Digby