On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Joshua Kronengold wrote: #The existence of a Tekla Republic itself would seem to contradict #this. # #So would a Phoenix scheming to take the throne from another Phoenix #(as we saw evidence for in the Paarfiad, in something that presumably #-is- in the historical record, unlike Sethra's speculations about #magical theory) by poison. # #Check your spellcheck on "emperor", btw. # Heh. Check yours on "Teckla". -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel http://cracksandshards.com a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website