On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, David Silberstein wrote: #Well, most of the other Houses care about lineage. I suspect the #Jhereg, like the Teckla, don't give a rat's ass about who your #great-great-grandfather was. Unlike with the Teckla, I suspect that #the Jhereg Emperorship is for sale to the highest bidder (or it goes #to the highest-ranking member of the Jhereg Council, whoever that #may happen to be at the time). # #Alternatively, maybe it goes to whoever "persuades" (by whatever #means) the Vallista Emperor to step down. I see the Jhereg as more inclined to pragmaticism than to tradition. IOW, it'll be whatever happens to work in a particular Cycle. -- Mark A. Mandel http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/ a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website