On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 Gaertk at aol.com wrote: >Jag <agrajag at dragaera.net> writes: > >> Vlad was not a citizen of the Empire until his father >> bought a title in the Jhereg. Its mentioned in one of the >> books (probablly _Taltos_ or _Jhereg_) that Vlad only >> received his link to the Orb when his father purchased the >> title. > >I want to debate this point. Didn't Vlad begin his sorcery >training befoe his father bought the title? How? No title, no Orb link. No Orb link, no sorcery. > I'd guess the family was Teckla before that point (or maybe Vlad's >mother was a citizen). Not from what I remember. Easterners, in and of themselves, are not one of the Dragaeran Houses. They could have sworn fealty to a Lord and become Teckla, but they didn't. There are perhaps reasons for not doing so.