Dear SKZB: Just so you know, We're going to have to insist that after finishing the 19 books of the Vladiad you start in on the next set of books, about 136 of them, about simple hybrids - We suggest starting with Jhereg/Phoenix. Then you can start on the next 680 books starting with Jhereg/Phoenix/Teckla. Looking forward to reading Iorich/Jhegaala/Dzur/Tiassa. Yours, The Cycles On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Bear wrote: > Might this not have something to do with the info that would have > embarrassed the Dzur? That Mellar had bred with a high-profile Dzur > daughter??? An interesting multi-breed there just waiting for a plot... > > bear > > >annnnd this is a magical world. it is entirely possible that if you are in > >the dzur house while not being a dzur, and then breed with a dzur, that the > >genes of the house become dominant and wipe out the halfbreed.. only the > >stev... err only the shadow knows.. > > andy > > > > > I did get the idea that the fact that he was a half-breed and a Jhereg > > was at least slightly embarassing to the Dzur--at least the fact that > > someone of that background could get into the house, and would then > > throw it away, seemed likely to embarass the dickens out of them. At > > least, that's how I read that part of Mellar's scheme in _Jhereg._ > > > > I suspect that on the whole, though, someone who earns his way into the > > house and comports himself with the dignity (or perhaps the bravura) > > expected of a Dzur would be fully, or at least sufficiently, accepted by > > them that he could marry one of their daughters and attend their social > > functions. After all, why let someone earn his way in and then treat > > him as if he didn't? Surely that would be beneath the House of > > Heroes--if nothing else, they can't admit that someone who beat them > > isn't worthy of being treated as an equal; if their inferiors can beat > > them, they're in the same fix, more or less, that the Jhereg are if > > peoplpe know someone can lift the Council treasury and escape. > > > > At least, that is how I see it. I could be wrong. It's a big and > > complex world, and I sometimes feel as simple as an Easterner. > > > > bonham15 wrote: > > >