On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 02:26:25PM -0400, yaga at berkano.pair.com wrote: > I'll have to look for it, but somewhere in the first three books (was > re-reading "The Book of Jhereg" collection recently, so I'm not sure which) > Sethra tells Vlad that she is a Dragon someone offhandedly when discussing > reincarnation and the initial schisms back then Keiron was still around. In _Jhereg_ Aliera says Sethra was around that old Dragon tribe. Of course Kieron and Zerika I would have been interacting a lot too, so that proves nothing. I think Sethra is on the Dragon Council, this from all the genetics stuff in _Yendi_. She seems to function these days more as a Dragonlord. OTOH, when Vlad asks Morrolan if he's known any Dzurlords who'd been that way Morrolan says "Sethra". And we know Sethra predates the Empire, and probably predates there being only 17 Houses. Being a half-breed (or an experimental hybrid, see "Q-17") is quite possible. Asking "what House is she" isn't really as appropriate as it is for modern Dragaerans. She seems to function as a Dragonlord and to have some association with the Dzur. (Plus that whole Dzur Mountain thing.) (Of course, most Lavodes were Dzur.) But really she's Sethra Lavode. -xx- Damien X-)