[Dragaera] Liberals

[Philip Hart via Dragaera]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2014, Christopher Martin via Dragaera wrote:

> I think this misses a big point about Dragaeran culture - its fluid, and
> the dragons we see in the books today, when the Dragon is near the top of
> the Cycle, are not the Dragons you would see when they are near the
> bottom. [...]

> Which raises the interesting point that the Jhereg we see in the books are
> the Jhereg at the bottom of the cycle - feuding, squabbling, bickering over
> small pieces of territory, etc.  I envision a more Anhk-Morpork-ian
> "organized crime" when the Jhereg are at the top of the Cycle.

These points reflect my view as well.  It depends on the Cycle period 
compared to the length of a Dragaeran generation (which is perhaps 
rather shorter than it would otherwise be for the warlike classes), 
but I figure the army will be populated by Dragons who have lived their 
lives in the expectancy that by divine or superdivine order they 
will temporarily work for classes that in the Vlad-era standing of the 
Cycle are dirt but in the time of the ascendancy of the Teckla are the 
rich and fashionable.  If the Cycle period is say 8kyears then there are 
what, 4k/500 = 8 generations from Vlad's time before the bottom rail is 
on top, or say Jane Austen's England versus ours.