On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Maximilian Wilson wrote: > Only if it's the individual Phoenix emperor who is expected to become > decadent--but it's the turning of the Cycle which makes the Phoenix > (as a House, it seems) become decadent. Princess Loudin and Lord Vernoi were, one presumes (or concludes based on Paarfi's description of the latter), not decadent, and would have been sensible candidates to replace T. And I think the decay has been described as applying to the crown not the house elsewhere. Anyway.