>How are they going to restore the house [of the Phoenix]? Unknown at this point, and possibly irrelevant for now. There won't be another Phoenix administration for something on the order of 30,000 to 50,000 years (making arbitrary assumptions about the number of long and short administrations in a Cycle). Verra and her sisters, when speaking to the Lords of Judgement in _Viscount of Adrilankha_, appear to be claiming that House Phoenix has some special mystical properties that cause it to regenerate itself even in the face of total destruction. How this might come about wasn't explained and was in fact implied to be too mysterious for easy explanation.