Dragaera

Dzur and Sex

Sat Jan 17 11:57:26 PST 2004


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark A Mandel [mailto:mam at theworld.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 11:58 AM
> To: Jeffrey Kiok
> Cc: dragaera at dragaera.info
> Subject: Re: Dzur and Sex
> 
> 
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Jeffrey Kiok wrote:
> 
> #Just throwing this out there with really no evidence.  We know from
> #scattered references that at one point, there were 20 houses prior to
> #the formation of the empire (or, as Aliera wryly remarks, 19 and one
> #tribe of teckla).  Since Sethra's House seems so difficult to place,
> #perhaps she is a member of one of these "lost" or destroyed Houses?
> 
> For that matter, iirc, we learn somewhere that there were originally
> something like 38 Houses, or proto-Houses, but most did not survive to
> the formation of the Empire.
> 

The number of houses has fluxuated over time, but the Empire was
formed from 31 tribes.

W

>From the Star Trek episode written by Dr. Suess:
Worf:       Ask him why? How sentimental.
            I say give him problems dental.