> > 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. > yeah otherwise how could he learn how to use sorcery? I remember, I think in _Jhereg_ that it talks about Noish-pa teaching him witchcraft and his father hiring a tutor to teach him Sorcery. See, when he goes to summon the wild jhereg, he teleports to the clearing, and he found that ironic. wow. Sunny