On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Matthew Hunter wrote: >On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:20:15AM -0800, "J.Jasper" ><jsjasper at attbi.com> wrote: >> Or perhaps Dragaern gestation takes a long long time. That would be my guess. At least 3 years, possibly as many as 6. That might seem like a long time to us, but it's not so much if your lifespan is 3000 years. >This makes me begin to wonder if perhaps Morrolan is half-human. Uh, no. Remember the stigma against ordinary Dragaeran crossbreeds and bastards, and the ease of genescans when sorcery works? No way Morrolan could later be admitted as the e'Drien heir unless his pedigree checked out. >Have we ever seen a Dragaerean-Easterner crossbreed? I *suspect* that Brigitta from "Brokedown Palace" (and Cawti's mom) is a Dragaerean-Easterner crossbreed, but I confess that this is merely a suspicion based on some fairly tenuous reasoning. > I can't recall one, but I also can't recall any statements to the >effect it's impossible. I think Aliera said exactly that in "Jhereg", but she definitely says that there's no biological relationship whatsoever between Dragaerans and Easterners, and Sethra directly contradicts her on that point, so she might be wrong about crossbreeds as well.