>Also, if the Orb can control tectonics and major >storms for 200,000 years, it may be able to quietly >hold or shuffle topsoil around. >Hmm. Maybe such things were the primary function, at >least in Zerika I's mind, and sorcery was developed >as a side effect. Isn't the orb's purpose in the grand scheme of things to keep the Jenoine in line (through the use of sorcery)?