Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 12/14/05 09:58 AM To "'Dragaera'" <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject RE: How will House Phoenix arise from the ashes? >Maybe Z_0 was a sport - the first Phoenix. Maybe the Orb contains the >magic whatever-it-is needed to produce a Houseworth of Phoenix out of one, >and Z_now will when the time is right use it - say as her last act as >Emperor. > >Maybe Z_0 was the last of her tribe, all the rest of which perished >establishing the Empire or creating the Orb, which was designed to make >new Phoenix with the side benefit of sorcery. Maybe the Phoenix are the >living embodiment of the Cycle. I find it interesting that in our mythos, the Phoenix is supposed to bind up the ashes of its predessesors in an "egg" which will then be reborn into a new Phoenix. I'd say the Orb makes a good parallel to an egg. They're both round, anyway. ;-) Majikjon