House characteristics

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grady Brandt" <gbrandt at Tampabayfederal.com>
To: <dragaera at dragaera.info>
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 8:59 AM
Subject: RE: House characteristics


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Scott Schultz [mailto:scott at cjhunter.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 11:49 AM
> >
> > David, in the Easterners' section you write:
> >
> > "Easterners can become members of House Jhereg by buying a title. We
don't
> > know if they can become Citizens of the Empire in any other way."
> >
> > I believe we know of two other ways.
> >
> > In _Brokedown Palace_, we meet Miklos on his way home to Fenario after
> > having spent some years working as a laborer for a Dragaeran lord of one
> > sort or another. He has a link to the Orb by virtue of having joined
House
> > Tekla. The implication is that anyone can join House Tekla simply by
> > asking
> > since, well, who would WANT to be a Tekla in the Empire? I lost my copy
of
> > Brokedown Palace some years ago so I can't supply a citation at the
> > moment,
> > though. Since there doesn't seem to be a central Tekla administration,
one
> > might wonder how you "apply" to enter the House. Also, the bit in
> > _Viscount_
> > where Mica and Lar discuss the Houses feeling superior to each other and
> > concluding that Easterners exist so that Tekla have someone to feel
> > superior
> > to, would at least indicate that Tekla are actually not that open to
> > taking
> > in outsiders.
>
> I believe this is mentioned in one of the Vladiad as well, but the
reference
> escapes me. One of the later ones in the timeline I think.
>

Check in  Phoenix, when the Teckla sorcerer is lecturing Vlad, and in Jhereg
when Vlad and Kragar are discussing Mellars background and how he joined the
House of Dzur. Of course, we assume it mostly applies to Dragaereans. . .

Jeff