Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 06/15/06 01:03 PM To "'Dragaera (E-mail)'" <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject Re: Multi-jointed fingers >Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote: > >>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. We don't? What about Vlad? It was his *father* that bought a title for himself in the Jhereg, and Vlad then inherited it. This says he's part of the house, and so are his descendants, etc etc. While it's less clear how the Dzur would handle it, I would think that the ability to defeat 17 heroes of the house in even combat would be enough to convince the Dzur Council that those are genes that they *want* to become part of the Dzur makeup. Presumably this sort of genetic mixing is the primary reason that Lyorn are so picky about not letting any outsiders in. Genetic purity, and all that. (This, IMO, does not speak especially well of the character of the Lyorn.) >>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. Well, the Jenoine had a pretty important hand in this, I would say. Majikjon