I find it interesting that Paarfi - a historian (who is supposed to be relatively unbiased) has a patron. Patronage implies that one must please said patron in order to continue to to be well-fed, housed, entertained, accepted in polite company, etc. Do we not then have to take everything from the Preface on with an enormous grain of salt? At first I thought, "Well, given the events he's writing about are pre-Interregnum, how bad can it be" and then I reminded myself how long-toothed Dragaerans are and hence it is still an issue. If all "historians" such as Paarfi (as opposed to chroniclers who are simply writing down their impressions and observations as they witness events) must have patrons to suppose their work, then is any "history" written by Drgaerans accurate? And of course, the trouble with chronicles is that they only show one small part of the larger picture. Stacy