----- Original Message ----- From: "David Silberstein" <davids at kithrup.com> To: "Dragaera List" <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 10:33 PM Subject: Re: Nothing to do with Neil Gaiman writes afterword > On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Gametech wrote: > > >> Do Yendi ever dress in house colors? Their stock in trade seem > >> to require not being identifiable as Yendi, in the first place... > > > > >In a way wearing the garb could itself be tricky, saying to everyone > >It's possible I'm being deceptive doesn't necessarily mean that you > >are going to be deceptive, unless of course it benefits you. I'm sure > >Yendi dress house appropriate at some time, but thinking about > >comments like "you know he is a Yendi?" (from tSiG to Sethra in > >reference to Pel, I believe) makes me think that they do not in fact > >wear their house colors. Anyone else have something to add? > > > > Aerich, who would probably know, says of Pel in tPG (pg 15, PB): > > "By the Phoenix, I think I could tell that he wasn't a Teckla; > noble birth cannot be hidden. And he was not a Jhereg, or I should > have smelled it. Every other House may be identified by face /and > clothing/, save the Yendi." > > (emphasis mine, of course) > Right, good, that one is anwsered. So do they even have house colors reserved, heh?