[SPOILERS?] David Silberstein writes: /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. "And yet," observed Kéurana, "he has not the bloodlines to use such powers fully." [LoCB, p. 391] I am confuséd. 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. Hmm. FHYA, page 141: "To-day my cousin is Warlord, and his younger son is my chainman, [...]" Note 'younger'. rone -- "I don't even know you. What if you're a psycho?" "Would a psycho waste the last of his triple-sec?" -- RICHH