In a message dated 10/16/2002 1:29:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, David Silberstein <davids at kithrup.com> writes: [Aliera e'Keiron] > On her mother's side, she's the daughter of a goddess. I > don't think convention covers that situation. :-) > > I wondered at one point in rasfw how that might have been > accepted by the Dragon Council, and came up with the > following scenario: > >http://groups.google.com/groups?q=selm=GJL5JD.5F5@kithrup.com You need to remove the "q=" to make that link work. > >DS> And while I'm on the topic, I found myself wondering how >DS> Aliera was accepted as a legitimate heir to Adron. >DS> Wouldn't the question of where the mother is come up? >DS> But then again, I could just see Verra herself showing >DS> up before the Dragon Council, just *daring* them to try >DS> and rule Aliera illegitimate. >DS> >DS> Council: "Uh... this council finds Aliera e'Kieron, >DS> fathered by Adron e'Kieron and borne by, uh, Verra the >DS> Demon Goddess, with e'Kieron dominant, to be a full >DS> member of the House of the Dragon and heir to Lord >DS> Adron." >DS> >DS> Verra: "Damn straight." >DS> >DS> Infant Aliera: *smirk* > > I see that I was also speculating that perhaps Verra was > not actually Aliera's genetic mother and that the > Necromancer was the egg donor. > Hmm. For some reason I don't remember that discussion, which is odd since I was quoted in that post. Hrm indeed. Of course, they could have just gene-scanned her, and found that she had enough e'Keiron genes to be heir regardless of who her mother was. --KG