On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 11:30:44PM -0800, Caliann the Elf <calianng_graves at yahoo.com> 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). We don't even know that there is always a Jhereg Council. I suspect that candidates are put forward by powerful Jhereg backers and the only one left alive gets to be Emperor. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt