On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, David Silberstein wrote: > And that's another example of someone from outside the system being > recognized by the system. In order for Aliera to be legitimate, Verra > must have been recognized by the Council of House Dragon as being an > honorary Dragonlord, and properly married to Adron e'Kieron. > > Now, Verra doesn't *care* about such recognition, except in how it > impacts Aliera, but House Dragon had to come to some sort of one-off > definition in order for their system to not break down. I don't quite see this - say a naive Dragon challenged A's right to the be in the House. Slash-parry-cut-expire. A is in the House. And she is presumably genetically Dragon, maybe with some odd hemoglobin genes.