: Heron Guards live centuries... but every seven years
: (when the Empire was still around) they had a contest
: in which the six best warriors of the Empire would
: join the ranks of the Heron Guard
: The journeyman happened only after the fall of Muirthemne
: Seraph
Ah, but in M3 prolgue, set AFTER M2, the bloke is a Jman, which leads me to believe that the Herons found their humbling Jman times as very useful, and helps them also to probably spot any who aren't morally-worthy to join the Heron because they are too arrogant, and so made people become Jmen before becoming Herons, as a kind of apprenticeship.
The prologue gives the impression that not all do this, though - mb younger people who show potential?
