Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote: >>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? > > Not necessarily inclusive for all Bastards. >>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?). > > Yep. But we don't know what happens to their children. >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?) > > > That's how the houses were formed in the first place.