On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Mia McDavid wrote: > >Not to worry. Dzurlord is synonymous with Dzur. There are no >Dzurcommoners. > Actually, there might be. I get the notion that "lord" as a suffix (Dragonlord, Dzurlord, and also Hawklord [1]) might indicate that the individual does rank above other Dragons or Dzur or Hawks who are *not* lords, perhaps having to do with how much land they control, perhaps with whether they control any land at all. For example, Morrolan is a Dragonlord. He's Count of Southmoor, probably Duke of Eastmanswatch - that's a fairly large chunk of land, altogether. On the other hand, there's Dortmond (to pick one) from /Dragon/. Given that he's been soldiering for 200 years, he probably doesn't have any lands that he's responsible for. I think he would just be a Dragon, not a Dragonlord. Anyway, that's my current pararectal ideation on the topic. No doubt [1] Vlad mouths off to a Hawklord in /Jhereg/, and I find myself wondering if it was none other than Paarfi of Roundwood. Of course, there are probably many Hawklords; there's no reason to think it was Paarfi. And come to think of it, we've never seen anything to indicate Paarfi's rank, have we?