> -----Original Message----- > From: Nytemuse [mailto:nytemuse at auros.org] > Well, my take on this was always the uniqueness of Aliera's > mother. I mean, who would believe it if she called herself > Aliera e'Verra? *shrug* I also wonder if the child or > parents maybe chose the last name to pass on, depending on > mother/father achivements, nobleness of line, possibilities > of inheritance, etc. Now that I think about it, it seems more likely that a Dragon chooses his/her patronymic from their ancestors, given that Barritt was such a big shot that his descendants started calling themselves e'Barritt (although almost all of them were wiped out in one of the Dragon-Jhereg wars, and this must have occurred long before Barritt was assassinated). Rachel