[Dragaera] comment on Dzurs (and Lyorn)

[Philip Hart]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, Jerry Friedman wrote:

> On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 1:15 AM, Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:

>> moral guidance and political leadership".  On pg. 75 of _TPG_ Aerich "was
>> accorded the honor with which everyone looks upon a Lyorn.  The second
>> sentence he says to Khaavren concerns his sword point, his honor, which
>> "must never touch the ground".
>
> An interesting comment for a literary character to make, but not part of
> a universally accepted definition of honor, as far as I can see.

Here I just meant that when Paarfi thinks of Aerich the subject of honor 
is not far behind.


>> The various nobles in the Paarfiad have their own personal honor, for
>> which they are willing to fight to the death, but for the Lyorn it's
>> more a feature of their House than having been raised in the nobility.
> ...
>  
> But Shaltre seems like a complete exception.

Hobby-horse reaction: Shaltre is what I think I referred to in some 
discussion about Dragaeran hybrids as a Yendi cuckoo.  Yendis don't 
have a House look per this hypothesis because they don't care (if we 
take Pel as an exemplar) about the House of their partners, and any 
offspring with Yendi dominant end up there.  Maybe Shaltre is Lyorn 
dominant.

Shaltre's also not a fighting Lyorn, which is a bit hard to figure out - 
why would there be Lyorns without arms training?  In a Dumas environment 
a second son of a noble family might be trained for the priesthood, but 
Dragaaerans don't have priests, or have Issola for that.