Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 06/15/06 12:35 PM To cc dragaera at dragaera.info Subject Re: Multi-jointed fingers >One advantage of the cycle is that every house gets its chance. But >there are not bastard houses - what happens to cross-breeds? I thought the Jhereg *were* a bastard house? >History shows that someone can become genetically part of a house. Do >cross-breeds get this chance? Or do their parents decide what is the >genetic makeup of their children? Well, we know it's possible to *join* the Dzur (as Mellar did) or the Jhereg (Vlad, Kragar, Norathar, Mellar again) and presumably anyone can go be a Teckla (who'd want to?). But how does "history show" that someone can *genetically* become part of a house? (Other than the Jhereg, who are mongrels to start with, that is?) Majikjon