On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, David Silberstein wrote: #> [[ And what about Vlads parentage? I remain convinced there are gods #> in his bloodline, specificly Verra. ]] # #Do you think Verra was lying when she told Vlad that he was decended #from peasant stock? I don't think she was lying, but that doesn't preclude a god. IIRC, Vlad was asking about being descended from Fenarian nobility. My own theory is that his mother -- whom he doesn't remember, or barely, and whom his father always referred to only as "that witch" -- was Verra herself. (And if a certain Dragaeran we know can disguise herself as well as we know she can, how much more so could a goddess?!) -- Mark A. Mandel http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/ a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website