[LMB] Ekaterin's Book tour

[Pat Mathews]

there has to be a peter whimsey type, or a bertie wooster.  the two 
extremes - the upper class is a bunch of useless fops, its the valet or 
butler who figures things out.  or, the useless fop is really clever, if 
only he could apply himself.
 
ziviya, on topic yet again, this is habit forming "
 Ivan. Byerly Vorrutyer. Not during the Time of Isolation because the Vor class was a functioning warrior caste them. The difference between a warrior caste and an aristocracy being that the aristocracy does other things than fighting and in later days, may not even fight.

It would, however, take the Barrayaran equivalent of World War I to kill them off as a warrior caste. And the Cetagandan Occupation wasn't it. That was more like a premature World War II - all hands and the cat to the battle stations, and the necessity of it never questioned by future generations.

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