On 2:53 PM Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote: > >>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. I'm talking in the context of having a genetic test to prove someone a Dragon - or in this case, a Jhereg. > 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. Except in the one case we are familiar with, he is a member of multiple houses simultaneously. > 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.) This isn't like our "races" on Earth, which are primarily cultural. These guys are subspecies, with genes of animals mixed in with their own genes - and genetically they have very real differences. Their pickyness may have biological reasons. Still, I'd like to know more about what happens to those who don't fit.