Dragaera

Morrolan's father

Fri Dec 13 11:20:54 PST 2002

On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:20:15AM -0800, "J.Jasper" <jsjasper at attbi.com> wrote:
> Jot Powers wrote:
> > Spoiler space
> > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 12:56:36PM -0600, Ruhlen, Rachel Louise (UMC-Student) wrote:
> > > How did Rollondar escape the disastor? I thought he was running the
> > > battle at the time it occurred. I KNOW he wouldn't have fled from it
> > > before the crisis and he wouldn't have had time after. Although Arra
> > > doesn't explicitly state that his father came East w/ his mother, if it
> > > were otherwise, than Morrolan was 156 years old at the beginning of POTD
> > > and I can't believe he'd be so dumb as not to have noticed THAT.
> > My thought is that he didn't escape the disaster because he doesn't
> > have to for Morrolan to be around.  However, his MOTHER definitely
> > had to.  :)
> Are we sure it was only Morrlolan's father who was a witch?  Perhaps it
> was his mother as well.
> 
> Furthermore, if she was a witch, she (Morrolan's mother) might have
> suspended the gestation a bit.  It's an ability that's consistent with
> the way that Brust has described witchcraft.
> 
> Or perhaps his father suspended the gestation. Or perhaps Dragaern
> gestation takes a long long time.

This makes me begin to wonder if perhaps Morrolan is half-human.

Have we ever seen a Dragaerean-Easterner crossbreed?  I can't 
recall one, but I also can't recall any statements to the effect 
it's impossible.

-- 
Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org)
Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt
Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp
Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp