On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 05:43:03PM -0800, David Silberstein wrote: > Inara is probably an Issola, but I suspect her of secretly being a > Yendi (that is, I have a notion that her real agenda is espionage). Seems an odd place for it. Unless you mean her contacts as she travels. > Book is... hm. Dunno. Maybe Yendi; I suspect *him* of having a > secret agenda as well. Certainly secrets. "That's no Shepherd." > Simon & River are Hawks, or maybe Athyra. River seemed to be turning into an athyra. :) I think Simon's too proper to be a Hawk. Lyornish, maybe. Except Lyorns don't commit crimes. > Mal, I suppose, is a Jhereg. Or an Orca. Nope, way too honorable and loyal to his people for a genuine Orca. Remember Vlad commenting on Kragar's un-Jhereg behavior? Probably another Dragon, except he (and Zoe) are willing to be sneakier than I suspect a Dragon would. Although I guess we shouldn't be too picky. His love of fights and weakness for the underdog has aspects of the Dzur, actually, even if he has an un-Dzurlike tendency to run away. A _smart_ Dzur. :) Hmm, Vlad does discover Dragons are quite capable of being subtle and sneaky in their campaigns. Just won't break their honor. Actually, I think that's a lesson of the later Vlad books -- the Houses mean something, but it's possible to read too much into them. Everyone thinks of the Yendi as the sneaky ones, and they do seem to go for a particular brand of sneakiness. But Orca can do it in finance, Jhereg lie all the time, Dragons sneak in campaigns, Issola, well, "strike from courtly bow". Grita's father was plotting a lot, and I forget his house, probably Tsalmoth, but the important part was that it wasn't one of these. The Phoenix Illistra plotted. Lying is universal, except maybe for Lyorn or Dzur. -xx- Damien X-)