>Says who? Says the Orb. Having a link is what it means to be a citizen. The title isn't even neccesary for that. It's just a rank of nobility. Once you're a citizen, your kids have the option to become citizens. Now, if you want to speculate that "naturalized" citizens have different rights than "native-born" citizens, you can do that but there's no textev for that position. Unless you can show differently, there's no reason to presume that Vlad's citizenship is any different than a Dragaeran's citizenship. The whole point of buying a title, after all, is to enjoy all the rights, ranks, and priveleges that accrue to a noble of that House. Heritability of rank is one of those priveleges, but even that doesn't really matter. A Teckla has the opportunity to be a citizen with no rank at all. Anyone can be a Teckla. All that it really takes is for someone with some minor bit of authority to say, "Yeah, okay, you're in the House." In any case, if you're going to propose that Vlad's title is an exception, then you have to show evidence. You can't just say "There's no evidence saying he's NOT an exception."