----- Original Message ----- From: "David Silberstein" <davids at kithrup.com> To: "Brust list" <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 3:12 PM Subject: Re: The Jhereg > On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Scott Ingram wrote: > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Peter H. Granzeau" <pgranzeau at cox.net> > >To: "Brust list" <dragaera at dragaera.info> > >Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 9:54 AM > >Subject: RE: The Jhereg > > > > > >> At 03:48 12/29/2002 -0500, Casey Rousseau wrote: > >> >S > >> >P > >> >O > >> >I > >> >L > >> >E > >> >R > >> > > >> >S > >> >P > >> >A > >> >C > >> >E > >> > > >> >F > >> >O > >> >R > >> > > >> >T > >> >H > >> >O > >> >S > >> >E > >> > > >> >W > >> >H > >> >O > >> > > >> >H > >> >A > >> >V > >> >E > >> >N > >> >' > >> >T > >> > > >> >R > >> >E > >> >A > >> >D > >> > > >> > > >> >- > >> >P > >> >O > >> >T > >> >D > >> >_ > >> > > >> >Peter H. Granzeau wrote: > >> > > > >> > > The situation of the Phoenix puzzles me, and Chapter Eighteen > >> > > of _The Paths of the Dead_ don't help me a single bit. > >> > > Parthenogenesis? > >> > > >> >There has been at least one mention of a person changing gender, (Drien, > >> >right?) Other possibilities exist, not least of which is (though I > >> >don't think we've discussed it) the Aliera method. > >> > >> Huh? Wozzat? > >> > >I think he's referring to the old > >journey-to-the-paths-of-the-dead-with-a-staff-and-resurrect-the-heir method. > >As was done with Aliera. > > > > Or possibly the old have-one-of-your-parents-be-a-god(dess) method. OH GOOD POINT!! Nobody has dared to suggest that Aliera is less than pure-Dragon, yet she's half-god(dess). I gather the child of a Dragarean (yes spelling is wrong) and a God results in a pureblood Dragarean. Yep, that's one possible out. -Scott