On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:43:38PM -0500, Mark A Mandel <mam at theworld.com> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Matthew Hunter wrote: > > #Remember, we have basically three classes in Dragaera: > # > #1) Criminals (Jhereg) > #2) Peasants (Teckla, Easterners) > #3) Nobility > > No, there are plenty of bourgeois, too: merchants and artisans, like the > Chreotha shoemaker, and Orca bankers and sailors. Dzur and Dragons (& > Phoenix of course) are often functionally noble, but the other houses > (iirc w/o checking my notes and page because my wife is yelling > SUPPER!), apart from the Teckla, are noble in theory but economically > mostly middle-class. I was specifically referring to noble-in-theory there. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp