On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Gomi no Sensei wrote: > > In _Jhereg_, an earlier (pre-Interregnum) Dragon-Jhereg war was noted as > having almost eliminated the e'Barritt line. How does that square with > Barritt still being alive post-Interregnum? Do the naming conventions of > Draconic lines allow for making a line while its founder is still alive? See the latest volume for affirmative evidence. I think it's "Baritt" by the way - 162 matches to 28. > How big and puissant could the e'Barritt line have been during the time > of the second Dragon-Jhereg war? Tortaalik reigned for 532 years (thanks > Alexx!) before the Disaster, DJW2 happened circa 440BI. Tack on about > 500 years between the Disaster and Jhereg and we have about 1000 years. > Assuming an upper limit of 3000 years for Barritt's age, he was about > 2000 at the time of the Disaster and about 1900 at the time of DJW2. Do we know what the generational time is? I was assuming 500 years. That would give him perhaps 8 grown-up grandkids when he's 2k - though Dragaerans could easily have more than 2 kids/couple, and more would make sense given the risks of being a noble and a warrior. Also B could have been rather older, given his skills and sword. Seems likely there were enough e'Baritts to be worth taking out. Anyway, can there really have been only 100 years between DJW2 and the Disaster? More Baritt-related complaints at http://dragaera.info/mailinglists/archive.cgi/1/7444 > This doesn't seem time enough to have a 'line' prominent enough to have > several assassination-worthy members, though I suppose if he spent the > time between the ages of 1000 and 1500 being a stupendous enough badass > he could inspire a number of Dragons to just take his name, though > there's no textev for such a practice being common outside the special > case of the Lavodes, which I think hardly counts. This seems possible to me, though only a prominent Dragon would bother, and a Dragon shunned by his line might not be welcomed. However, say the Lanyas got into a big scandal but didn't clean house - perhaps a few Lyorn-like members might leave and be accepted by the Baritts.