[Dragaera] Courtesy Cracks? (Dzur spoiler, minor)

[Davdi Silverrock]

On 1/31/07, Will Frank wrote:
> I don't know if this has been pointed out before...I don't even know whether
> spoiler protection is still active for _Dzur_, but as the topic is
> appropriate, I supply spoiler space out of courtesy...
>
> Phoenix
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> Dragon
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> Lyorn
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> Tiassa
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> Hawk
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> Dzur
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> Issola
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> Tsalmoth
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> Vallista
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> Jhereg
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> Iorich
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> Chreotha
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> Yendi
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> Orca
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> Teckla
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> Jhegaala
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> Athyra
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> Phoenix
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> OK. Now then.
>
> >From _Issola_, Prologue:
> "The Dzur remain seated when greeting new arrivals to their tables at public
> or private houses..."
>
> However, when Telnan arrives at Vlad's table in the beginning of _Dzur_:
> "I stood up. If he'd been a Jhereg, I'd have remained seated, out of
> courtesy, but he was a Dzur so I rose and gave him a half bow."
>

[snip]

> ..all I can suspect is that Vlad thought aping a Dzur's
> customs might be considered more rude than not, or possible, he didn't care
> about being rude ("if he was a Jhereg I'd have done the courteous thing,
> but he was a Dzur, he'd interrupted my klava, and I'd had a very long day,
> so courtesy could go jump into the Lesser Sea of Chaos").
>
> Or, of course, it's a slipup on one of the multiple Brusts' parts. Thoughts?
>

As I pondered some months ago:

( http://lists.dragaera.info/pipermail/dragaera-dragaera.info/2006q3/001259.html
)

[...] as a complication, a member of one House might greet someone
of another House using that other House's standard of conduct.

[...]

So was Vlad being inappropriate to Telnan?
Or was he unconsciously following the rule of, say, House Issola?