[Dragaera] left hand right hand, no spoilers

[Damien Sullivan]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 03:19:30PM -0800, Philip Hart wrote:

>>>> Indeed, if the LH were part of House Jhereg, one would figure they
>>>> would have at least insisted on a council seat.
>>
>> The council runs the Organization, not the House.
>
> It's not clear to me that in fact the Organization is not the 
> Cycle-House. Perhaps the empire recognizes the House as a convenient 

Perhaps.  Certainly the Cycle verse focuses on the corruption of the
Jhereg.  OTOH, as mentioned, the Organization didn't formally exist
unless Vlad got his history wrong.

>> And Vlad said in _Jhereg_ there wasn't even an formal council before the
>> Interregnum, just crime bosses and I guess informal negotiations.
>> Though in that case I wonder who sold Jhereg titles.  The Heir?
>
> The selling of titles (to Easterners, I take it you mean, otherwise it's  
> just another concession for a symbolic stamp) was the idea of the Demon.

I assumed that Dragaerans wanting to join the House had to buy in as
well.  Out-of-luck nobles might find it easier to borrow money to buy
the title, of course that'd obligate you more to an individual Jhereg.
I assume that someone kicked out of e.g. the Dragons loses whatever
title they had from the Dragons; without joining the Jhereg you might be
a citizen, but not a noble, and also not eligible for marriage with
anyone.

-xx- Damien X-)