Lowki suggested: > > from the romance in 500 years after, do you think it possible that mario can > be the father of the un-born devera? I heard that it might be Kieron the > conqueror, but wasn't aliera his sister in a former life? hmmmm.... that > would be a pretty neat twist. > But alas, no... http://www.math.ttu.edu/~kesinger/brust/devera.html "Q2: Who is Devera's father? A2: What a good question. Nobody knows, although pretty much every male character other than Noish-pa has been suggested. A common suggestion was Mario Greymist (on the theory that Aliera had a fling with him in Five Hundred Years After), but Steven Brust says no. It _is_ somebody we've met, though, and he claims that it's possible to figure it out. It ought to be a Dragon (since crossbreeding is considered Bad), which should cut down on the candidates. Morrolan is 'Uncle 'Rollan', so it's not him. "