> -----Original Message----- > From: A Knight in White Satin [mailto:pendragon at vaxer.net] > David Silberstein wrote: > >>Doesn't square with Khaavren's assertion that daughters take after > >>mothers and that sons take after their fathers, does it? So, then, > >>are sons named for their father's line, and then daughters are > >>named for their mothe -- NO, BECAUSE OF ALIERA E'KIERON. > > > Ah, but Aliera is very unusual in more than one way. So > perhaps she's > > different in her lineage & naming & whatnot as well. But Steve > > refuses to give clue one in that direction. > > I can readily see Aliera breaking convention on naming, if > she was entitled to > take "e'Kieron" but "convention" said otherwise. It's > another excuse to > challenge for a duel, after all, if anybody makes an issue of > it. [Remember, > the bit about levitating under longer gowns to disguise her height] Perhaps the girl-mother boy-father theory is right. But how would you go about naming your daugther after Verra, her mother? It's logical to take "e'Kieron"...and then duel anyone who breathes the word "bastard". Rachel