On Tue, 3 May 2005, Maximilian Wilson wrote: > How does the "one Emperor per House per Cycle" theory deal with the > theoretical maximum length of a House's turn on the Cycle? 17 * 17 * 17 = > 4913 years. Do proponents of this theory just assume that the Emperor lives > a *long* time? We think a) maybe Vlad was funning about 17**3 years, or b) the Emperor _may_ live a long time (possibly with an Orb assist), or c) the 17**3 rule is just a traditional large number (imagine a folk song in our world in which someone promises to wait 1k years for his lover), or d) the Emperor has on occasion when need be lived a long time because that's what the Cycle wanted - but 17**3 seems to be the limit, or e) whatever else we think.