[Dragaera] it's late and i'm a little punchy

[Philip Hart via Dragaera]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2014, Scott Schultz via Dragaera wrote:

> Adron was never the Emperor, not even for the sixty seconds that he took to
> teleport Khaavren and company to safety. The feedback loop would never have
> happened because *the Cycle had not turned*.
>
> According to its normal function, the Orb would have sought out the next
> Phoenix in line after Tortaalick.

I made some arguments on this topic here a while ago, e.g.
http://dragaera.info/mailinglists/dragaera/archive/2003q2/007511.html

Basically I doubt there there can be two emperors in a turn under normal 
circumstances. I think there's a latency issue in communication between 
the Orb and the Cycle such that Adron was the Emperor according to the 
Orb and in the normal course of events would have been the Emperor 
according to the Cycle, except that in a great Cycle the Phoenix do get 
two Emperors.  This would be a feature then, not a bug.