On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 erik at debill.org wrote: > Once again, since fierceness is so prized, I'd suspect that anyone who > fought their way into the House of the Dzur would either qualify or > very nearly qualify as a Hero and probably be prime marriage material. Someone on the list very sharply noted that the Dzur seem to sleep outside the house a lot. I'm not sure "fierceness" is the common denominator of their partners, though. Consider the Piroiad, for example. > I believe that we saw Tazendra at least having flings with members of > other houses - Dzur might well just be less strict about that. Or more susceptible - v. above. > You'll note that it always seemed to be soldiers and other fighters she > flirted with. A nice observation if true - I only remember a Hawklord from _TPG_. How to characterize her most important emotional relatee I don't know. > No point having a caste system if you can change castes easily. Unless the castes represent something actual, instead of being hereditary. It strikes me that the military and the medical in our society are a bit like Houses, in the sense of hereditary professions. And the musical.