Kendra Vorenkamp <kdvorenkamp at gmail.com> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 01/11/06 11:22 AM Please respond to kdvorenkamp at gmail.com To Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com> cc Dragaera List <dragaera at dragaera.info> Subject Re: the honing of Vlad >> Or maybe it's even worked both ways in different Cycles. >> >> Can anyone cite anywhere the mention of a Jhereg heir? I might be >misremembering, but I thought that the entire Jhereg council (not just the >head) ran the Empire in lieu of having an Emperor figurehead. Well, Zerika IV makes comments to Vlad in /Phoenix/ (page 314 of /The Book of Taltos/) that says "Later, it was each House, through it's heir, which ruled each House..." While this is far from conclusive, the fact that she makes no exception for the House Jhereg when making this statement is telling. Also, in TPG, page 78 of the Trade Paperback: "...buy their way into positions of power until they can pick their own emperor." Implies that it is, indeed, an Emperor who rules in a Jhereg reign, not the whole council. I don't remember any specific mention of a Jhereg heir, directly, however. There is a Lord Beck mentioned, who came to Kana's little get-together, but he's only noted as a "former house representative". Majikjon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://dragaera.info/pipermail/dragaera/attachments/20060111/2a9b7922/attachment-0001.htm