On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Dennis Higbee wrote:
>On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Mark A Mandel wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Iván Rebollo wrote:
>>
>> #Mark A. Mandel wrote:
>> #
>> #>ISTR that somewhere we hear that lineage goes through the
>> #>same-sex parent: mother to daughter, father to son.
I don't recall anything specifically said about how lineage is
determined. It would be nice if we could see it expressed
canonically, but I suspect that for most Dragaerans & Easterners, it
is either totally obvious, or completely uninteresting, and will thus
not be mentioned.
Of course, Vlad might meet up with a geneaologist in /Lyorn/, and hear
the whole thing spelled out in excruciating detail whether he wants
to hear it or not.
>> Well, as I was going to add but forgot, Aliera is obviously an
>> exception.
>> Or maybe I misremembered entirely and it ISN'T father>son and
>> mother>daughter. Can anyone help on that?
>
>I thought it was the genetic inheritance that was gender-based--i.e.,
>the son has the traits of the father and the daughter those of the
>mother.
>
What I recall is that *character* goes from mother to daughter & from
father to son - and that sounds like a suspiciously non-rigorous folk
interpretation of genetics. I don't think it's said by someone we
were meant to take seriously on the matter, i.e., Sethra or Aliera
herself speaking ex cathedra on genetics.
I think I've found the textev for that, by the way: /The Phoenix
Guards/, Chapter 10 ("Tazendra's History"), page 99 in the PB:
"Oh, but come Tazendra, she must have been bold enough
for two Dzurlords; where else could you have gotten such
courage? For we all know that character passes from
mother to daughter, just as from father to son. Cracks in
the Orb, haven't the Dragon wizards proved it?"
I am not 100% confident that Khaavren is accurately stating what it is
that the Dragon wizards proved, assuming he did not in fact make it up
>from whole cloth in order bolster his attempts to draw Tazendra out.