Richard Suitor <rsuitor at cjwrfs.net> writes: > On 23 Jun 2002 14:23:42 -0400, Thomas Yan <tyan at twcny.rr.com> > wrote: > > >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. > > There have to be siblings in general to have a stable population. > If the expected number of children per adult is less than or equal > to two, the population is declining (especially with the incidence > of unrevivable deaths that we've seen). We haven't been > introduced to folks with no parents yet. Unknown, certainly, but > not thought to be non-existent. > > Of course, maybe it is declining. The timescale is generations, > and there have been recent disasters. Or maybe some folks have no > parents and aren't aware of that fact. If dragaerans are fertile a proportional amount of their lifespan, the first child could well be away from home before the second came along often. They'd *be* siblings, but not having grown up together, probably wouldn't have many of the trappings of siblinghood that we're used to. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info