> #I thought he was pure Tsalmoth. I wouldn't expect a crossbreed > could have > #such a high position in the Emperor's court. > > Am I forgetting that much? Time to dig them out and read. I'm thinking > of the ringleader in FHYA. * * * * * * SPOILERS * * * * * * Lord Garland _is_ Greycat, the ringleader from Five Hundred Years After, but I don't think he is a crossbreed. His daughter Grita is. The Phoenix Guards, pg 230 - [Garland] is a Tsalmoth from the south ... he is of good birth. TPG, pg 235 - [Garland] was a small and graceful man, wtih the sinewy legs and arms of the Tsalmoth. Five Hundred Years After doesn't say much about Greycat's ancestry, I imagine because Paarfi wanted to keep us from guessing who he was. The only quote I could find that referred to his House, in an indirect way, was: FHYA, pg 58 - and even [a wound] on [Greycat]'s scalp that ran alongside his noble's point--for he was, indeed, a son of nobility. Bryan