On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, David Silberstein wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Jeffrey Kiok wrote: > > >As I recall, in Taltos, Vlad asks Morrolan who he knows that went > >down the Dzur path on the waterfalls, and Morrolan says Sethra. Vlad > >remarks that he always thought Sethra was a dragon. I think Vlad isn't the most reliable judge of apparent lineage. > I think Sethra is an exception to nearly all rules of social > propriety. > > Besides, we know it is possible to join House Dzur by defeating 17 > Dzur Heros. Sethra may have been given a burial by Dzurs who wished > to honor her by tacitly acknowledging that anyone who defeated as many > Dzur as she did - we don't know the number, but almost certainly far > greater than 17 - was an honorary Dzur. > > Paarfi has been careful to never state either Sethra's House, or the > lack of knowledge of her House. Although I think he does say that > Sethra the Younger is a Dragon. > I fail to understand any of your reasoning above in the context of Jeffrey's observation. Probably the lack of alcohol at my gf's. > At this point, we don't know if Sethra is a Dragon, a Dzur, or a > Dragon-Dzur mix, although it hasn't been ruled out either. If she > *were* a mix, I think the polite avoidence of the topic would be > common. It's also possible that she's not a mix in the sense that she has a Dragon ancestor and a Dzur ancestor - she might have come from a line based on both sets of genes, i.e. she's a DzurDragon not a Dzur-Dragon.