In a message dated 8/29/2002 10:55:18 AM Mountain Daylight Time, nytemuse at auros.org writes: > 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? > Well, I remember that Aliera was looking into the e'Lanya line because it was "purer" - at least, that's what I recall. Which of course, begs the question: what does "purer" mean? I could hazard a guess and say it means that the line in question bred with fewer "lower nobility" Dragons than other lines. Stacy