I don't know if this has ever been mentioned before, but I just, while re-re-re-re-reading Phoenix, realized that my pseudo-theory about Steve's books actually *does* work. I think that every book that Steve has authored by himself, and possibly the ones he's co-authored all work together as a whole. First and foremost, there's the Vladiad, which probably occurs at roughly 200000+ years after Cowboy Feng's. Cowboy Feng's deals with the human race, long after our present day, where interstellar travel has become possible, and interplanetary colonization has occurred. I would imagine that it was explorers from around this time period who first discovered Dragaera, and maybe even colonized it, eventually turning into the Serioli. In fact, Sethra may even date from this time, perhaps even as an incarnation of the female vampire created in Agyar, or maybe even the same person, who knows. That would date Sethra's age at roughly 24528592085092852524805 years old or so, or something similarly meaningless. But it is an accepted fact of our vampire-lore that the older the vampire, the more powerful she is. I don't know if there's ever a point where one kind of peaks, powerwise, but I would estimate that Sethra has done so--and even from there she has potential for growth--she did after all, turn down Godhood. TRIH has to do with the creation of Earth, and the most fundamental of all of his books regarding the operational principles of the magic inherent in our lives, and inherent on Dragaera. Flux and Chaos are roughly interchangable. It would make sense, then, that Yahweh was able to not only create the Earth (duh) but that circumstance also allowed him to take his mind and power off the monumental task of perpetually keeping the flux at bay, which allowed him to expand his universe. It would then be of supreme interest to him to find a place like Dragaera, where the possibilities are such that flux can exist physically on that place, but where it is also contained---but not disconnected from the plane of existence, like it was in Heaven. Are the Jenoine angels? Are they the fallen? Did we witness the death of one of the characters in TRIH in Issola? Jon