On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, David Silberstein wrote: > I imagine that our resident medical/biological experts could explain > learnedly about the widow's peak being a recessive or dominant trait, Dominant. > and the genetic implications behind the fact that it shows up in all > Dragaerans except Teckla. The implication would be that no nobility ended up as Teckla, or nobles who join House Teckla don't have children, or that a noble's point is a strong selection disadvantage for Tecklas (which I can well imagine). I assume that the recessive gene was bred out of nobles long ago because homozygous recessives get kicked out or perhaps exposed a la Oedipus. Note that it's _not_ a simple way for the nobility to kick out Teckla hybrids. > > I also started looking for it in portraits of Dragaerans, since that > was kind of the whole point. The covers of the Paarfian romances > do in fact show Khaavren & Piro having a clear noble's point, > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312864787 Is this Piro? He looks too wry and doesn't look young enough; and his clothes seem a bit simple for a Viscount and the colors are wrong. I thought this might be intended to be Morrolan, which would make the altar-like object more probable.