>Why doesn't the House Jhereg just reject Vlad? He'd have to join the >Teckla or lose his citizenship and link... Vlad has an official Imperial title now (Count, I believe) complete with land holdings. I'd imagine that qualifies him for citizenship regardless of his expulsion from House Jhereg. In any case, "Citizenship" is pretty much just a matter of having a link to the Orb. If expulsion from your House causes you to lose your link to the Orb then we have not yet seen any examples of that.