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<blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 6870439" data-attributes="member: 6777052">No, I know you didn't. I did.The Threbean word for the assistant who follows you around, writing down what is said and reminding you later, is σηκτρός. Goofle translate did its best. Likewise, the person who answers the door and delays visitors whom he judges to be unimportant, is called the δεσήπτϖν. Again, Goofle did its best.Now you're applying your own rules again. In my fiction, he can have as many assistants as he cares to employ. If he wants someone just to carry his lucky dragon's foot[sup]*[/sup] around, he can have that. He is wealthy.Plus, his university is exempt from taxes because his old adventuring buddy Olaf the Ready is now King Olaf IV of Threbes and he makes the rules. Another buddy, Gen. Chariot &quot;Blood&quot; Carver is now Olaf's brother-in-law and in charge of the army. They have an arrangment whereby students and staff of the university are exempt from military service, which is otherwise compulsory, and this ensures a steady supply of suitable students who are only too aware that soldiers who turn out to be brighter than their superiors are regarded by the army as unpleasant and in need of being shouted at.[hr][/hr][sup]*[/sup]There are several schools of thought about lucky dragons' feet. Some point out that the person who removes the foot from the dragon was lucky. Others point out that it wasn't so lucky for the dragon. Some say there's no such thing as luck. Others say there's no such thing as dragons. A few insist that although there are dragons, they are wyrms and don't have feet. No-one take much notice of the last lot.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BoldItalic, post: 6870439, member: 6777052"] No, I know you didn't. I did. The Threbean word for the assistant who follows you around, writing down what is said and reminding you later, is σηκτρός. Goofle translate did its best. Likewise, the person who answers the door and delays visitors whom he judges to be unimportant, is called the δεσήπτϖν. Again, Goofle did its best. Now you're applying your own rules again. In my fiction, he can have as many assistants as he cares to employ. If he wants someone just to carry his lucky dragon's foot[sup]*[/sup] around, he can have that. He is [i]wealthy[/i]. Plus, his university is exempt from taxes because his old adventuring buddy Olaf the Ready is now King Olaf IV of Threbes and he makes the rules. Another buddy, Gen. Chariot "Blood" Carver is now Olaf's brother-in-law and in charge of the army. They have an arrangment whereby students and staff of the university are exempt from military service, which is otherwise compulsory, and this ensures a steady supply of suitable students who are only too aware that soldiers who turn out to be brighter than their superiors are regarded by the army as unpleasant and in need of being shouted at. [hr][/hr] [sup]*[/sup]There are several schools of thought about lucky dragons' feet. Some point out that the person who removes the foot from the dragon was lucky. Others point out that it wasn't so lucky for the dragon. Some say there's no such thing as luck. Others say there's no such thing as dragons. A few insist that although there are dragons, they are wyrms and don't have feet. No-one take much notice of the last lot. [/QUOTE]

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