On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Philip Hart wrote: >On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, David Silberstein wrote: > >> On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, James Griffin wrote: >> >> Sethra Lavode has been undead only for a few thousand years or so > >Carp: I don't believe this is anything like established by the canon - >maybe Paarfi thinks this, but I maintain that the quality of evidence >needed to reach such a conclusion is missing. I am curious why you think this. Why do you pretend that Paarfi's research, spelled out in FHYA, is wrong? > >And isn't taking out the leading Dragon a job for the Jhereg's leading >worker? In the absence of Mario, would that be Istvaan (sp? AFB)? He's >assigned to take out Vlad, perhaps the #1 priority of the House. Note >however that he isn't involved in _Jhereg_ when Mellar was #1. And how >come he has an Eastern (I suspect Fenarian) name? Amusingly enough, "Istvan" (or rather, István) is how the Hungarians spell "Steven". I wonder if that is significant? > >Also I'm confused about something in _Dragon_ - doesn't Morrolan tell >Vlad he expects the sword to be stolen by a Jhereg, although no >self-respecting Dragonlord (except maybe M.) would hire one, >especially so it seems to me for a matter involving House politics? > The House that is really concerned with propriety is the Lyorn. Dragons seem to be have more variation, from really caring about it to not caring about it at all -- as long as they don't get found out. Note that the Warlord Lytra e'Tenith, in _Phoenix Guards_, hires a Jhereg to carry out some of the attacks on Khaavren & company -- although she makes clear that she wants them disabled, not killed. Although Paarfi may have been unreliable on that point, and it was just Seodra who was "really" behind that.