On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Philip Hart wrote: >On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Mark A Mandel wrote: > >> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Greg Morrow wrote: >> #Note that, apparently from Aliera's case, being half-god doesn't >> #count as being a cross-breed, which is moderately interesting >> #considering the general Dragaeran opinion of gods, which implies >> #that cross-breeding with gods is OK because gods are powerful, not >> #because gods are divine (or otherwise special). >> Or maybe because gods aren't of a Dragaeran House. Maybe the taboo >> is only, or primarily, on cross-HOUSE pairing. >> Aibynn is a Houseless Dragaeran (by race, not as in "citizen of the >> Empire"), an immigrant or refugee from Greenaere. If he doesn't >> join a House, I postulate that he could still marry and father a >> child without stigma, or at least without the stigma attaching to >> inter-House marriage and parentage. >I'd bet an orb that Aibynn is of sub-Jhereg status at best and >sub-Teckla status at worst (more likely the latter) and would be >treated as such for questions of stigma. > I'd interpret his status as being exactly that of a Jhereg, for the purpose of matrimony at any rate. The Jhereg are the House of bastards and cross-breeds; their House genetic signature is not that of the animal jhereg but is rather a "mish-mash". Given that Aibynn would appear to be such a "mish-mash" as well, I imagine he would be as acceptable as a Jhereg, regardless of whether he actively went and bought a title in that House. To the other Houses, of course, Jhereg already have stigma, even for those who are not part of the Organization.