lazarus wrote: > My recollection is that House Jhereg is the only House with no genetic > input. They were just the dregs and scavengers left over after all > the other houses formed, and sarcastically gave themselves a critter > name as well. > > Not to say Loiosh hasn't helped Vlad a great deal, but not in the > manner you're thinking. Perhaps I'm misremembering, but I believe the Jhereg House started as an amalgam of the tribes that didn't make it into Kieron's Top 15 list (they didn't count the Teckla, who always seem to get the short end of the lepip). Aliera told Vlad that, over time, the mixture of genes that made up the Jhereg formed it's own detectable gene-strain (so to speak). If that's the case (hey, she's been wrong before:), Jhereg were originaly made from all the left-over animals. Hmm... wonder if there are any daar or kethna in there.... So, yes, I don't believe there are jhereg genes in the Jhereg; they're kind of like the Dragaeran melting-pot. Although, they do portray jhereg-like traits, which makes me wonder how many dragaerans are influenced by genes, and how many by memes. Hmm, again. :) Chris "Life is the nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real" -Thomas Ligotti- 'The Sect of the Idiot'