Re a phoenix having to fly overhead at birth for a phoenix to be a Phoenix: Did you ever notice that Vlad repeats things he's heard on the street as if they were true? I'm not saying it *isn't* true, but the whole idea seems so nonsensical to me that I think Vlad's being overly credulous. Sean Penny wrote: >I'm surprised Dragaereans can crossbreed. Since they have the actual >genes from Orca and Dragons and such, you'd think they would be >incompatible. Yeah, but it works. Even the crosses are fertile, hence Mellar and probably a lot of the Jhereg. It does bring up the interesting question of the genetic mix in the Dzurlords, since others can win their way in. magical truthsaying bastard roney! writes: > I haven't seen it, but i would imagine they'd be based on other > animals, such as kethna, darr, and norska. We could have fun with that, doncha know. The House of the Buzzard, died out when Deathgate came into use. The banana slugs, who died out when beer was invented. The House of Coyote, Dragaeran pranksters supreme, still around but everybody pretends not to notice... -- `The skills needed for dealing with a computer are not simply irrelevant to those needed for dealing with people; they are actually a negative. You cannot reboot, reinstall, or power cycle a human being no matter how desperately they need it.' -- me, in forthcoming article