Jessica <jetdragon at comcast.net> writes: > Small tPotD spoilers > > Hi, long time lurker, etc. Welcome. > I was re-reading tPotD when something caught my eye. On > page 310, when Pel arrives at Dzur Mountain, he meets the > Sorceress in Green. > > "The Sorceress studied him, then abruptly sheathed her > sword and made a certain motion with the fingers of her > left hand. Upon seeing this, Pel, his eyes widening > slightly, made a similar yet different motion with the > fingers of his left hand, after which the Sorceress said, > 'Follow me, then, my lord Galstan.'" [...] > So it seems the Yendi use hand signals to identify > themselves to one another. > > So what information is contained in the signals? Rank, > maybe? If it was just a house identifier, presumably the > signals would be the same. I meant to comment on this back when the book came out, but it looks like I forgot. Its definately a House identifier, but I don't think it gives rank. I don't think Yendis have ranks (other than titles), and if they did, I doubt they would tell them to strangers (especially strangers from their House; these are Yendi, after all). My guess is that the difference is in whether they want to hide their House from others; SiG does, while Pel doesn't care. I have to really wonder at Paarfi's source for this scene, since he *claims* not to know SiG's House. --KG