Now hold on, here...The orb went to go to Adron but was prevented to by the spell which was designed to render the orb inert, or something.... But it seems obvious that the orb was "confused" as to the next house which would reign. Why would it go to the Dragon Heir if the reign called for a reborn Phoenix? At the time of each transfer of the orb, I put forward that there is the possibilty for greater or lesser sociopolitical turbulence, but that the transfer of the orb after a GREAT cycle is pretty much a guarantee for some turbulence at some mythical or legendary degree. We have textev that there can be more than one emperor per reign; we just have not got any clear instances of where that is actually the case. I would also argue that a Teckla reign can be any and all of the possible governments which pollute the world nowadays--you could have a monarchy, whose ruler happens to be a teckla, or you could have the "American Dream", or a constitutional monarchy, such as the UK has, or communist regime, or tyrannical slaughter that was the French Revolution. However, these governments can be fleeting; so it may be during a Teckla reign where we are most likely to see more than one Emperor per reign, due to political infighting caused by conflicting claims on the orb, or a joint-ownership or oligarchical government, etc... But because it is a Teckla reign, and since no one in power nowadays gives two rat's shits about Teckla, who would care, (other than a Lyorn) to record that there were multiple rulers during the xth Teckla reign...Paarfi seems to have an aversion to truly academic pursuits, and Vlad sees them like most other Dragaerans do, with perhaps some slight difference, due to the events of Athyra, and Sethra who would remember only seems to care about the present circumstances, which is to say, she'd remember everything a Teckla ruler could wish to know, during the Reign of a Teckla. Otherwise, she tends to be most useful to the person who needs to use her talents to protect Dragaera from the Jenoine, and possibly the Gods as well. Jon _________________________________________________________________ Powerful Parental Controls Let your child discover the best the Internet has to offer. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines Start enjoying all the benefits of MSN® Premium right now and get the first two months FREE*.