On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 10:23, Richard Suitor wrote: > On 10 Dec 2002 09:33:41 -0500, Jag <agrajag at dragaera.net> wrote: > > > > >[1] Unless this was already covered and I missed it, like I did with > >Devera being a dragon in Issola. > > Possible SPOILER, but of the same sort you've had so far: > > > There was a link to an interview some time ago where Steven offered the > answer to the identity of Devera's father - Kieron. I don't have the link. Ah ha! So one of my guesses was right. > > The way the offer was made I wasn't sure how seriously to take the answer. > > However, the offer wasn't made that much differently from the one we just > got upstream, so now I'm inclined to give it equal weight. How that > affects the previous paragraph is left as an exercise for the reader. > > Devera told Vlad at one point that she wasn't born yet. > > If we use 500/20 as a canonical life scaling and apply that to pregnancies > (a big if) we get 19 year pregnancies - but if conception had occurred > before they got Aliera out, she ought have known long before Issola and > have started showing. The reason that is important is that when Sethra > seems slightly surprised that Aliera doesn't recognize the dragon, Aliera > at least ought to have smelled a rat. If we use Savn, who is 90 and acts > about 12, as a scaling we only get about 6 year pregnancies, which makes > conception before Aliera was rescued impossible. Besides, her soul wasn't > there - it was imprisoned with Lorann - I can't see Kieron getting together > with a soulless Aliera. I forgot to include it in my previous email, but when I was proposing that Aliera became pregnant during the trip to the Paths that we saw, I was thinking it was after Verra restored her, but before she left. In other words, it would probablly be while Vlad was doing the teleport, which is the only length of time they're down there that we don't directly see. Although I do admit its unlikely that Aliera ran off to have a romp with Kieron at that time, espeically with Morrolan right there. I didn't think of it before, but I just remembered that Aliera is a direct descendant of Kieron, which adds back in that squicky incest bit to that coupling. :( Jag