> 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. A pretty good derivation... but you forget that throughout all of SKZB's books, he calls all Dragon soldiers as "Dragonlords" even if he knows nothing about their lineage or estates.