Dragaera

Sethra Lavode (Large spoilers, esp Orca/Issola)

Howard Brazee howard at brazee.net
Wed Jun 14 04:50:18 PDT 2006

On 6/13/2006 4:29 PM Jon Lincicum wrote:
>  >/Phoenix/, Chapter 7. (Page 255, omnibus)
>  >>
>  >> "You haven't met (Sethra) yet, so picture if you will a tall
>  Dragaeran
>  >> wearing...
>
>  Hmmm... "Tall for a Dragaeran" vs "a tall Dragaeran".
>
>  Semantic difference? In this context, negligable. In this case, why
>  bother saying a Dragaeran is tall at all, if you just mean "tall,
>  like
>  all Dragaerans are"? Or "tall, compared to an Easterner" (which is
>  kind
>  of like saying a Banana is round... when compared to a dagger)

Agreed, in the subsets of Dragaerans, she is tall.

Although it seems odd that all 17 houses would average the same 
height.   Are there relatively short houses?