Your posts need to be about 65% less presumptious. First of all, that little pk ratio stat really doesn't mean almost anything. It isn't nearly as black/white as you make it out to be. Here's one little theory I have about it... having played in the fortress, as a scion, and as a sylvan (though not all have been recent). The majority of evils past rank 30 tend to be scions. Goodies and neutrals, however, are often all over the map. Most scions kill just about everyone, while goodies are far more focused. I'd wager that a large chunk of that scion pk ratio are players who aren't necessarily sylvans or fortress members. And no, i'm not saying that sylvans or marans never kill non-scions, but I will assert that scions on average kill a lot more out of their typical cabal war pks. Now, on to yet another of your assumptions. How exactly do you know that Ryfivin isn't just another face in a long line of scions that this player is behind? I'll go so far as to tell you that this certainly isn't his first... The sanc argument, which you so quickly dismissed due to that skewed set of pk ratio stats, is actually quite valid. I really do think that the cf coders top priority (as far as cabal related coding goes) is to give the non mage scion classes a little something, cause evils really don't have that many options in cabal selection that deals strictly with alignment (Goodies:3, Evils:1).