Kenneth Gorelick wrote: > The Dragon-Jhereg half-breed is atypical since there is no genetic > "Jhereg". A Jhereg can be a genetic Dragon--how would a Dragon > geneticist figure that out? I know that Jhereg isn't considered exactly canon, being the first book in a series that wasn't expected to be a series, but in it, Aliera says that the mish-mash of genes in House Jhereg has over time congealed into a valid genetic marker; this allows her to properly identify someone's lineage as genetic Jhereg. As for a Dragon geneticist figuring out that a genetic Dragon is in fact a Jhereg, well, it should be fairly easy if they're trying to actually figure that out. It wouldn't involve genetics, but rather checking the Dragon repository of information (or wherever their records are kept). For example, Kragar is genetic Dragon, but is a Jhereg. I think that if a Dragon geneticist was trying to determine Kragar's house and determined that he is a pure Dragon, he'd also look at expulsion records and realize he's really a Jhereg. Note that Kragar has put on his Dragon outfit and impersonated a Dragon several times to get information for Vlad. I have a feeling that the setting that he's operating in when trying to obtain said information would preclude a genetic or any other "official" test of House. Jose -- Jose Marquez jhereg69 at earthlink.net