>They're granted to Easterners, not Dragaerans, by the Jhereg. >QED. /golfclap Okay, now is there a more useful differentiation that might help illuminate us on what differences there are? Saying "they're sold so they're not the same" doesn't change anything. You still can't say anything about what's different or if anything at all is different aside from the method of acquisition - exchange of money instead of inheritance. Why would buying a title neccesarily imply that it's functionally any different than an inherited title? At the risk of being pedantic, do we know for a fact that titles are sold only to Easterners? Questions about House Jhereg aside, we know that impoverished nobles have sold their titles to the Empire. It seems reasonable to conjecture that they could buy them from the Empire as well. Particularly given that the Emperor, like many historical real world emperors, seems to be in a constant state of near-insolvency. The Demon's innovation would seem to be selling them to Easterners, rather than the idea of selling them at all. If buying and selling of titles is acceptable (Tortaalik certainly saw nothing wrong with the sale of Khaavren's family titles) then it seems that there's nothing stopping the Jhereg from selling House Jhereg titles to other Dragaerans other than a lack of a market.