Iain E. Davis wrote: > That's what I was thinking. Or at least perceived cowardice. Definitions > of cowardice may vary. > > To be honest I can't picture Kana as Kragar, or vice-versa. But that's > purely by gut-feeling, I can't support with any evidence. :) > > I actually wonder if Kragar did something along the lines of "disobeyed > orders to save his unit's lives", ending up in the position of being > officially expelled, but unofficially thanked, as it were. :) OTOH, I don't remember any textevd that Kragar is a coward in any way except not wanting to give orders (and presumably take responsibility for them), and Aliera certainly doesn't have a high opinion of Kragar (that yendi) - and since Vlad tells Kragar that it's genetically determined that a Dragon like Kragar will disobey orders if his commander is being an idiot, Dragons like Aliera presumably don't necessarily consider disobeying orders necessarily awful. So maybe he did something like ordering a truly stupid assault (say like Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg) in the first battle he was an officer in? For a House where everyone wants to be Warlord, perhaps such horrible tactical sense is enough to get thrown out. Doesn't quite explain the yendi reference, unless Kragar said that a revered general had ordered him psionically to make the charge, the general died in the battle, and since all Dragons know that revered generals of their House could never be that stupid, it's obvious that not only is Kragar tactically incompetent, but he tries to blame his failings on his much smarter superiors?