>I somehow thought that the record-keepers and librarians tended to be >Lyorns, or maybe just the former. Drat.. I think you're right. I'd got the idea that it was an Athyra manning the desk in City Hall in _Orca_ but it was a Lyorn. Since the Lyorn would be the last House to let anyone in, let alone an Easterner, we can pretty much abolish that idea.