Jag wrote: > > I think it would have been cooler if she (Devera) were > > Mario's daughter... It's been shown that crossbreeds > > are possible, and since Mario and Aliera were > > obviously attracted to one another.... > > > > We've already seen a crossbread, Grita, before, so we know its > possible. Plus, the Jhereg is just a mismatch of all the noble Houses, > so technically they're all crossbreeds. > If Verra was a sortof 'lab assistant' to the Jenoine, whom we know played around with Dragaeran genetics, is it possible that 'Verra's daughter' simply means that Verra took a genetic sample from Adron, and then did a bit of genetic engineering to 'improve' the abilities of Kieron's line, before presenting the resulting experiment to Adron? If Verra wanted to get a few non-Dragon genes into the Kieron line without having the Dragons immediately disown the child, perhaps its necessary to be the 'mother' of record, since god-Dragon crossbreeds don't have the same social ostracism as other crossbreeds do. And if Verra did that, there's no reason she couldn't have done the same with an Aliera/Kieron cross later, in which case maybe it doesn't matter whether Aliera looked pregnant or not at such and such a time, or whether Kieron would want to get it on with a soulless descendent? Karen