Dragaera

Kragar (was: A thought concerning Skinter's future...)

David Silberstein davids at kithrup.com
Tue Nov 4 15:58:37 PST 2003

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Trager wrote:

>
>Another note on Kragar being a half-breed... when Aliera and Morrolan 
>are arguing about Norathar's lineage, I seem to recall one of them 
>making a comment about Kragar's genetics that implies that he was a 
>full blooded Dragon.  Unfortunately, I don't have the book with me 
>right now, so I can't confirm that.

Well, we do have a booksearch now.  It was a bit tricky to find the
combination of words to get what I think you are remembering, but
it would appear to be in /Yendi/, chapter 8:

   Morrolan: "Have you met Vlad's assistant, Kragar? He's as much of a
   Dragon --"

   Aliera (interrupting Morrolan): "That snake?  He was thrown out of
   the House, as you well know."

The thing is, we don't know what Morrolan was going to say.  It might
have been "as you or I" (definitely yes), or it might have been "as
Vlad is" (definitely no), or "as Sethra is" (definitely ambiguous,
but possibly half-breed).  And we don't know if what he *was* going to
say was correct or not.

Aliera's use of the word "snake" is interesting.  It might apply to
either Skinter (as a rebel), or a Dragon-Yendi (or Dragon-Jhereg,
jhereg are also reptiles) half-breed. 

>
>  Now that I think about it, though, I suppose one could make the
>case that Aliera would never have done a gene-probe on Kragar, so
>both of them could have been mistaken about Kragar's lineage.  I
>think that's fairly unlikely, though. 
>

Well, Kragar doesn't seem to be present during this exchange, and
they don't seem to specifically be referencing a genetic scan, so
again, we don't know.