*giggles*  When Wyvern's Mate originally exploded on the launch pad, Rinn was basically the oldest thing in the game.  Now she's just a petulant little girl armed with a truly indecent amount of explosives!<br/><br/><br/>Rinn is, by extremely careful and conscious effort, an extremely poor administrator.  She refuses to accept the fealty of loyal dragons, and counts her enemies among her allies.  This chaotic approach, however, keeps the red sept off guard, and it's kind of hard to plot against someone if you don't know whether you're going to be attacked on sight or given a frightening amount of oral sex and a suitcase with a million dollars in it.  Her poor record keeping and careful stoking of rivalries have also rendered the red sept so unstable, that without her, it would likely explode into a violent civil war regardless of the actions of the new Wyvern.  How the hell the red sept keeps from boiling over is testament to her ability to always raise the heat just enough to keep the foam rising in a threatening way, but never enough to take the needle too far into the red.<br/><br/>One might note that this follows perfectly Machiavelli's scheme of leadership.  Nobody loves, or even likes Tann Rinn Mitoga, but they fear her intensely.  Her leadership of the red sept is railed against by many as a blight on all of dragon society.  But she is always needed, lest her mistakes explode into another chapter of the endless war.  Rinn's sole redeeming quality is that she is always extremely aggressive in persecuting those red dragons who take direct action against other septs, even if she's more than willing to provoke other dragons and septs into quiet duels, or provoke secret vendettas.<br/><br/>The red sept, under Rinn, believes the the collective good of humanity far outweighs the good of any one human.  Taken to it's ridiculous extreme, the red sept's position is that it would be better for one family of humans to live forever than it would be for ten billion humans to live a decade and then all die of one cause or another.  Rinn is very approving of witch hunts, mass imprisonments, and other tribalistic scapegoat rituals which intensify the bonds between humans.