At 11:25 PM 2/5/2006, Felix Eisen wrote: >This brings up the point of Vlads baronetcy. Did it exist before Vlad's >father bought it? According to the conversation with Paresh in /Teckla/, >Vlad says it's a "real place with 2 or 3 families living there." >"Taltos" sure seems like an unusual name for a Dragaeran to give to a >region, which makes me suspect that the region was named after Vlad (or >rather, after his father) rather than vice versa. > > Majikjon >Vlad isn't the Baronet of Taltos; he's the Baronet >Taltos. 'Taltos' is not a place, it's a personal name; the current >Baronet of Redgrave is Sir Nicholas Hickman Ponsonby Bacon -- who >would be referred to in Dragaera as Baronet Bacon, not as Baronet >Redgrave. Vlad, since he has an -actual- location -- which >actually gets identified at some point -- is 'Baronet of X', and is >addressed as 'Baronet Lastname'. For what it's worth, Sir Nicholas >is addressed as 'Sir Nicholas Bacon, Bnt' -- a letter with which >form of address I believe Vlad receives at the beginning of Dragon.... We have very little to go on to know the nature of Dragaeran titles, other than the use of them varies by House (Teckla have none, Orca seem to equate titles to position held, for instance). In our world, the only place that has baronets is the UK, where it is a kind of hereditary knighthood, nothing more. In the Jhereg, it evidently is somewhat more like a minor peerage. -- Regards, Pete pgranzeau at cox.net