On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 Gaertk at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated Tue, 15 Oct 2002 10:32:46 +0800, Andrew >Bailey <andrew at networkharmoni.com.au> writes: > >> On names and lineages, it seems that when someone signs >> something they put down their Lineage block, I wonder what >> the lineage block of Aliera e'Kieron looks like? >I want to see Sethra's. We're told her parents' names are >listed, but no one else. > No, we're told (pg 103): "Her lineage block [...] is in the form of a downward pointing arrowhead or triangle, entirely self-contained, with no lines either entering or emerging, as if her maternal and paternal ancestor had appeared from nowhere at all, begotten her, and vanished." No names mentioned at all. I wonder if she is perhaps an uncreated looping time-traveller, like [spoiler] from Pratchett's "Pyramids".