On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Greg Morrow wrote: >David Silberstein wondered aloud to the group: > >I have been wondering how the Heirship swings > >over to Morrolan - was it decided that the e'Drien line was the > >nextmost acceptable after the e'Kieron (and he's the head of the > >e'Drien line), or does he inherit that from his mom (whose name we > >still don't know, I think), since she was an e'Kieron daughter? > >We know that Morrolan's mother was e'Kieron? /Taltos/, chapter 14, pg 144 in th Ace PB: "I'm your cousin. My name is Morrolan e'Drien. I am the eldest son of your father's youngest sister." I have speculated elsewhere about whether Dragon lineage follows the father always, or can perhaps sometimes follow the mother. But I am nearly certain that Rollandar's wife, Adron's sister, was an e'Kieron. Note that "eldest" would appear to be wrong, although it occurs to me as I type this that Morrolan might not have known of his brother Molric when he said that. Or Vlad or Steve just got it wrong. >I inferred from the text in Yendi (to the effect that "it was decided >that the e'Lanya line would be the next to take the throne") that >there was a sort of turn-taking among Dragon lineages. This is my understanding as well. >How often is the succession shuffled? We can presume that there was >a Dragon heir during the 17th Athyra reign--Houses apparently always >have heirs, regardless of how removed they are from the throne--but >we can also presume from Yendi that the Dragon heir of the Athyra >reign was replaced by Norathar's mother early in the reign of the >18th Phoenix. Well, Adron was the Heir at the very beginning of that reign, and perhaps he had only recently been chosen. While /Yendi/ mentions the "Lady Miera" first, and "Lord K'laiyer" second, the preface to /Paths of the Dead/ states that the "Lord of Kee-Laiyer Meadows" was the Heir, not Norathar's mother. Shrug.