The way I think is that they can have multiple children if they wanted to but would they want to. I personally would not want children in times of poverty and famine such as in 500 years after. Or even in times of war (when aren't there times of war in dragaera?!) I just think they either can't find the time in thier long lives or they don't feel economisally stable. take Aerics parents, they die when he was very young or even tazendra's(sorry I won't go any further for those who haven't read the Khaavren Romances.) But I just think they are also afraid of sibling rivalries when the parents die, who gets the land or their fathes's sword...ect. I think that after putting up with your annoying little sister or brother for a millenia or two you might feel the need to smack them upside the with your morganti great weapon which may actually start another war. --Lowki >From: David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> >To: dragaera at dragaera.info >Subject: Re: Siblings [Dragaeran Gender Equality??] >Date: 23 Jun 2002 21:15:28 -0500 > >Thomas Yan <tyan at twcny.rr.com> writes: > > > frankNfi wrote: > > > > > > I get the impression that inheritance is gender neutral, but because > > > Dragerians are so infertile I cannot prove it. Every female > > > character I can think of with a title has no male siblings mentioned > > > or is explicitly an only child. > > > > 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. > >Well, Aliera had a brother once. >-- >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 _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com