Philip Hart wrote: > 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 Should that have been "The Cychos" ? Because frankly, I think that is what we are... > > > > > 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: >> >> >> > >