Gaertk at aol.com writes: > In a message dated Sun, 23 Jun 2002 1:23:42 PM Eastern Standard Time, Thomas Yan <tyan at twcny.rr.com> writes: > > > Tangent: What siblings have we seen, period? Savn has a > > sister in _Athyra_, but no other examples, Easterner or > > Dragaeran, leaps immediately to my mind. [rearranged] > I think Adron had a sister. And Kieron, Dolivar, and > whoever Aliera was were siblings. And Verra supposedly > has two sisters (Night and Pain I think). > > Miklos has three brothers, and some of the folktales in BP > mention siblings (I remember the strong prince/smart prince > one), and Brigitta may have had siblings. For some reason Oh, yeah! > I suspect Noish-pa or Vlad's father had siblings. And Me, too. > someone may want to check _Teckla_ to see if Paresh(?) > mentions siblings. Good call on Paresh. ** pp336-344. ch2. (337) "...black tallow from lft..." p340: "I had an older sister and two younger brothers" > Pretty much everyone we meet is an adult on their own, so > we never get much chance to learn about thier families. I think it would be natural for there to be large families on a farm, to help out with all the work [1]. Elsewhere, there may be siblings, but separated by so many years that the older children have already moved out. [1] Tangent: Have you read _The Dubious Hills_ by Pamela Dean? Kids are born with magic, but lose it when they grow older, which makes it convenient to have another baby on the way. - tky