On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 18:12, M J wrote: > Moreover, you just don't want to take the chance of offending any Dragon, whether or not he happens to have lands or a title. I think that, in that case, "lord" as a suffix is a prudent courtesy, extended to random persons of the House of the Dragon against the chance that the omission of "-lord" would possibly cause them to have hurt feelings and take out those hurt feelings ON YOUR SPLEEN. That is, until you call a non-lord member of the house of Dragon a 'Dragonlord' in front of someone who truly is a Dragonlord, and thus becomes offended at you putting the lesser man on his level. With that said, I'm of the opinion that all Dragons are Dragonlord, and all Dzur are Dzurlords. Has anyone noticed that the '-lord' only works with Dragons, Dzur, and Hawk? For some reason, 'Phoenixlord', or 'Athyralord' just doesn't sound the same.