>>I always had it in my head he was Eastern. Maybe the name fooled me or overrode more explicit references.>> I belive in Yendi Vlad has a conversation with Kragar that goes something like: "Ishtvan? Easterner?" "No. Just an Eastern name like Mario" Tim Owen "Born in lust, turn to dust. Born in sin, come on in!" ~Andre Linoge Storm of the Century Noam Izenberg <noam.izenberg at jhuapl.edu> wrote: On Jan 14, 2004, at 3:05 PM, David Silberstein wrote: > Er. Human in which sense? You perceive, it is confusing to use that > particular term, since both Dragaerans and Easterners call themselves > "human". So I'm an Easterner snob. Human = Easterner. I was born in Boston, so it is perfectly logical to me. A always knew the Californians were Something Else... > We have Paarfi of Roundwood's history, which firmly describes Mario as > being a Jhereg, which is to say, a Dragaeran Jhereg. We know that > Mario is defintely a Dragaeran, because he is little more than 100 > years old (FHYA, chapter 19) and is still considered very young. Sigh. Time to re-read everything (have to finish POTD first, though). I always had it in my head he was Eastern. Maybe the name fooled me or overrode more explicit references. I guess I read FHYA too long ago. There goes my premise, anyway. Bizarre Non-Gem (Noam Izenberg - not too bright, but at least strange) --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes