On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:54:14 -0700, Scott Schultz <scott at cjhunter.com> wrote: >> Are there peaceful transitions between houses? > > Depending on what you mean by peaceful, we've heard about abdications > under > pressure. I want to say that Kiera, in Orca, tells Vlad about an emperor > who > abdicates when faced with the sort of financial crisis that is the > centerpiece of that story but I may well be mis-remembering. (The > disadvantage of reading the list at work; no access to texts.) That could work between houses. It also could work within a dynasty. I don't remember whether there was a dynastic change here. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/