Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote: >To: kdvorenkamp at gmail.com >CC: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info,Dragaera List <dragaera at dragaera.info> >Subject: Re: the honing of Vlad >Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:53:19 -0800 > >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 > >> 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. > We also have the *paraphrasing from memory* "Every house gets to rule through an emperor except for the Teckla Republic" bit. I bet we would have heard about any Jhereg Republic if any existed. :) /Mrtn