Minor spoilers below for early Vlad books. On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 07:25:03PM -0600, Sakura Dreamz <sakura_dreamz at hotmail.com> wrote: > Um, does anyone know the exact different of a Dragaerian and a Easterner? I > mean, I know that Dragaerian's are like, taller and such but is there > anything else? They're not actually dragons, right? Each Dragaeran house, excepting the Jhereg and perhaps the Teckla, were genetically modified with (some of) the genes of their name animals, and presumably granted some psychic ability at the same time. Aside from that, well, they appear to be taller, stronger, thinner, and lack facial hair. Oh, and they live nearly forever. > And also, about the house of Phoenix, how does one become part of that > house? Wasn't it said that there are only a few left or something? I know > the Empress is one... is there anyone else? ^^;; Probably a dumb question, > but oh well. How you become a Phoenix is unclear. It certainly involves a real phoenix passing over you at the night of your birth, according to one of the Paarfi books. Whether the child must also be a trueblood phoenix is unspecified (if so, no wonder the house is so small). -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt