Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 06/15/06 06:32 PM To Dragaera <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject Re: Multi-jointed fingers (and houses) >Did Vlad's father buy his title from some impoverished nobleman? It is implied he bought it directly from some powerful Jhereg representative who did not give up his own title in the process (see the remarks between Kragar and Vlad in /Jhereg/ where Vlad asks if the Demon might have been the one who sold his father his title.) > Can Vlad sell his title? Hm. Unlikely, since the terms it was bought under is likely to make it non-transferrable, but I know of no textev either way on this one. >Can the state take it away from him? Almost certainly. In cases of Leze Majesty, for example, this is a fairly common punishment. This likely applies to *all* titles, however, not just the Jhereg ones. If I had to guess, I'd say there are likely hundreds of little baronetcys and baronys out there that are owned by "House Jhereg" without any particular lord to govern them (there are many vacancies left over from the Interregnum). This is likely what the Jhereg are selling to Easterners. Of course, even if they ran out of these, they could probably arrange for landless titles at the same prices. (Wanna be the Duke of Galstan? on 20,000 Imperials! Galstan? Where's that?) There's no limit to the number of places you could invent titles for. Majikjon