On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Philip Hart wrote: #I was unclear re "lineage" - I meant, how is it that Rollondar is e'Drien #but Adron e'Kieron. What you say about "cousin" is full of justice. #But note that Paarfi refers to Molric as Adron's nephew on pg 278. #Perhaps this is an odd error by Paarfi; another option is that Dragaeran #has finer discrimination of relationships than English and the translator #got confused... ISTR that somewhere we hear that lineage goes through the same-sex parent: mother to daughter, father to son. In that case, two close relatives could easily be of different lineages; e.g. I and my first cousin, whose mother was my father's sister. I'd be of the lineage of our shared grandfather, while he would get his lineage from his father, who is no relation to me except by marriage (my uncle by marriage). -- Mark A. Mandel