On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Casey Rousseau wrote: > What's interesting to me is that there is discussion I think in _Yendi_ that > the Dragon Council had met prior to the interregnum and decided that the > next Dragon heir should be e'Lanya, which is why Norathar becomes the heir, > but before she resurfaces, Aliera e'Kieron, and Morrolan e'Drien had been > the Dragon heirs to the throne. Seems to be all a bit arbitrary. There > seems to be a mixture of personal selection of surname (as evidenced by the > e'Barritt line) and simple passage of the surname from parent to child. > What I haven't noticed is a) if any lines are named for female heroes, and > b) any evidence of a Dragon taking their mother's surname as opposed to > their father's. In my limited experience, I was led to think that Lanya and/or Terics were female...but I could be wrong. Yeah, I always wondered about the line of ascension. I could understand why Aliera would be the next heir (being e'Kieron, and Adron's daughter). Could the whole creating the Sea of Chaos have caused a certain amount of shame or dishonor or distrust from the Dragon Council on Adron's line, so that if a more suitable line was surviving, they'd prefer them to be the heir? Or possibly does Norathar have any other redeeming features or special accolades that would make her a better heir? ****** NyteMuse "Call her life unnatural, feel her undead breath. Color her black for sorcery, color her gray for death." AIM: NyteMuse139 / ICQ: #21966269 (NyteMuse) MSN: NyteMuse / Yahoo!ID: NyteMuse http://www.crowfire.com