Matthew Walsh <walshm at ipfw.edu> writes: > On Apr 18, 2005, at 8:40 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> I'd like comments and suggestions from people here, especially on >> anything that's clearly wrong, and then on anything solidly known >> about any of the houses that I have omitted. More examples of famous >> house members would be good -- and please provide cites for where they >> appear. I need to add the cites for the ones I've got so far. > > For the Athyra, I'm not sure "cold and distant intellectuals" really > covers it. My impression is that knowledge isn't as important to them > as power, and that understanding something is more a means to control > it than an end in itself. (TPG p.121: "...still it was the aftermath > of the reign of the Athyra, a House with as little use for impractical > knowledge as the House of the Dragon would have for anything that > didn't cut or thrust.") Thanks, the cite in particular is invaluable for this sort of thing. I have to find a way to keep that information around without making the pages too scholarly. > The Duke of Wellborn, once Discreet to Tortaalik I, might qualify as a > famous Athyra. (Introduced in Chapter the Twenty-First of TPG.) Thanks. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b at dd-b.net>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>