> -----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.