On 3 Nov 2003, Jag wrote: >On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 03:26, David Silberstein wrote: [Skinter -> Kragar, perhaps] >It is a rather amusing notion, but I believe I've found a flaw in it. >It was mentioned that due to Kragar's natural ability/curse of being >unnoticed, he was unable to lead in battle, and that was somehow related >to him being thrown out of his original House. Yes, but that wasn't some ex cathedra explanation, that was Kragar's own off-the-cuff explanation - which, I think, even Vlad thought was more than a little fishy. I won't absolutely accept it until I see Morrolan or Sethra mentioning it. And thinking about it, it doesn't really make sense. How in hell would he get a command unless he impressed his superiors with his ability to be a commander? They don't just throw soldiers in the field and tell one of them "Hey, you. You're in charge. If you fuck up, you're outta the House." (And how would they have noticed him to do so?) As we see in /Dragon/, not all members of House Dragon are cut out to lead. Some are quite content to be grunts for a very long time. I thought of another amusing fact that strengthens my argument: Morrolan, when he sees Kragar for the first time (to Vlad's knowledge), indicates that he knows him, and says "Forgive me if I don't bow." Assuming my theory is true, isn't that just a perfect snark to someone who at one time had pretensions of being Emperor?