[Dragaera] Cycle Turnings

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Will Frank <wmfrank at stwing.org> 
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>One more: the Teckla, we are told, revolt to form the Republic (note: is 
>that--the Teckla form a Republic--actually written in any of the books so 

>far? I'm not complaining, per se; it's a great explanation and makes 
>perfect sense. But I don't recall it), and I'm betting the Republic ends 
up 
>collapsing, so the Jhegaala just pick up the pieces.

There's a bit at the beginning of /The Phoenix Guard/ (talking about 
G'aereth's history) that mentions the fall of the "seventeenth Teckla 
Republic" and the beginning of the Jhegaala reign that followed. This 
would seem to imply that there were 16 other Teckla Republics before this, 
presumably during the 16 prior Teckla turns of the cycle.

[Cite]

We will pause, then, long enough to say two words about Captain 
Gant-Aerethia. He had arrived in Dragaera City, the poor younger son of a 
poor Dzur baron from a marshy south-western lake region, late in the 
Seventeenth Teckla Republic. He joined the army of the Jhegaala, and was 
involved in the fall of the Republic, and the establishment of Empress 
Viodonna the Sixth, of the House of the Jhegaala.

[End Cite]

It seems to me there are other comments scattered around the Paarfiad in 
an offhand way that back this idea up.

(I also notice that, given the full-form of G'aereth's name, that he 
appears to come from the Aerethia region--a place mentioned at other times 
in the Paarfi and Vlad books as a wine-producing region of some repute. We 
might be able to conclude from this passage that this region is located in 
the south-west, and is a marshy lake region.)

It would appear that, rather like Vlad talking to Kiera, I found more than 
I was looking for here.

Majikjon