> -----Original Message----- > From: Tucker [mailto:jazzfish at softhome.net] > Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 5:03 PM > > >I was rereading /Jhereg/ while waiting for /Paths of the Dead/ to > >appear at my local bookstore, and I came across a reference to the > >first Dragon-Jhereg war. The book says that "The e'Kieron line was > >almost wiped out, and for a while it seemed the e'Barritt line had > >been" (Jhereg, p74). This confused me. I thought I remember > it being a > >point of /Dragon/ that when Barritt died, his descendants > began calling > >themselves e'Barritt as a tribute to his greatness. So how > could there > >have been any e'Barritts before the Interregnum, let alone > during the > >first Dragon-Jhereg war? Anyone have any ideas? > > Um. Uh. Okay, how's this: > > After several gazillion years of Dragaerans, they're > eventually going to > run out of good-sounding names and start repeating > themselves. So maybe > there was an e'Baritt line named after someone else named > Baritt, that got > wiped out in the D-J war, and the 'new' Baritt just happened > to be cool > enough to get the line revived. Vlad, being an Easterner and > untutored in > Dragon history, might not be able to tell the difference > between the e'Baritts. I came across that last time I read _Jhereg_, because that particular story has so many inconsistencies with several other books (both from Vlad series & Khaavren romances). Here is how I interpreted it: First, I thought (but would have to check) that Barritt's descendents started calling themselves e'Barritt and no mention was made of when that occurred (before or after his death). So it could have occurred before his death, and most of them died during the Interregnum. Or there was a line of e'Barritts, who were nearly wiped out, and Barritts descendents also began calling themselves e'Barritt. I prefer the first explanation, myself. Rachel