> “But - even a thousand years later we still know about Salazar Slytherin - you mean you haven't actually heard of the Dark Lord at all?"
She cast her mind back to a Galactic History short course she had taken, for interest, one summer during her brief time at the University.
"I think the original founder of House Dyne, on Jackson's Whole, used the title," she said hesitantly. "And I know Miles said something about a space pirate out near Tau Ceti who insisted on being called something similar. And then of course there was Count Pierre Le Sanguinière Vorrutyer's younger brother -"