On 7/5/05, Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> wrote: > Charles Sumner wrote: > > > Of course, in the current Vladiverse, House Phoenix is just one > > person, and we've got a pretty good sense of who she is and therefore > > what the current House Phoenix is like. > > > I'm not at all sure what the characteristics are of a Phoenix. Nobody > talked about Phoenix characteristics. Well there is discussion somewhere of a failing, decadent Phoenix at the end of a cycle and the rising, effective Phoenix at the head of a cycle (or something - AFB right now to look it up). That probabaly counts as a characteristic of the house, as much as anything and fits with the "Phoenix" myth/ideal. > She's determined and rational - > are those House characteristics, or characteristics of her office? > If a Phoenix flew over a Teckla or a Dzur being born, would the next > Phoenix look and act like a Teckla or a Dzur? Now that is an interesting question... and probably hinges on the ideas of the house restoring itself. > > How are they going to restore the house? > > > > Charley > > The House of Phoenix? Did it *have* a house as such to be restored? It did. There were certainly many more Phoenix at one time, as noted in the Khaavren cycle.