On 29 Aug 2002 at 17:56, magical truthsaying bastard roney! wrote: > Gaertk at aol.com writes: > In a message dated Thu, 29 Aug 2002 5:57:14 PM Eastern > Standard Time, Steven Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> writes: > > At 03:16 PM 8/22/2002 -0400, Barbara Baj wrote: > >> Often it's mentinoned that a citizen gets a link to the > >> orb. How is this actually done? > > In most cases, it happens some time shortly before birth. > >?Paarfi will be discussing this in, I think, volume 2 of > > Viscount. > Hmmm, I would never have guessed something like that. > > I had seen it mentioned on, i think, rasfw. > > And it leaves the question of how Vlad got his link, since > he father didn't buy his Jhereg title until after Vlad was > born. I seem to remember something about people getting links through parentage, so I'll go out on a limb and assert that Vlad got his link when his father bought title. As to the actual 'how' of it, I suppose we'll have to wait a read what Paarfi says, then go back to making up our own answers, untill and unless someone more credible is will to address the subject. Corwin