On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:36:47PM -0700, David Silberstein <davids at kithrup.com> wrote: > 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. We do not know whether Vlad was a citizen before his father bought a title. I suspect that he was, simply because Teckla are, and they also have no title. > > 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. I suspect that citizenship is not necessarily the same as House membership. -- 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