On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Scott Schultz wrote: > >Dunno - the title might have been valid for heirs of his body (assuming > >that means immediate heirs) or might be otherwise defeasible. Vlad had > >access to the Orb before his father was killed, because the latter had > >hired a sorcerer to teach him, hence Vlad was already a citizen and not > >an inheritor of that status. > > I'm having a bit of trouble parsing the above statements. Note that "defeasible" means "may not be heritable under certain conditions", in this context at least. > It appears that you're suggesting that Vlad was a citizen because his > father had someone teach him sorcery. The title came later. I thought the sequence was buy title, hire tutor. The point being, Vlad was alive at the time the title was purchased. > The title came with a link to the Orb for Taltos Sr. and all of his > descendants. Says who?