> 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. > That does bring to my mind, noble sir, whether the aforementioned house has had the genetic magic since the beginning of the empire that we love so much. I would dare to presume so for otherwise it would present some grave problems in the early days for determination of purity. The abilities of the wizards pre-interregnum being what they were, I can scarce believe it to be true. . . But then again, such a spell shouldn't take up too much power, just be very intricate and involved I would think. I often get dragged into the train of thought that the pre-Disaster wizards were weaker then the "Modern" sorcerers instead of thinking of them as just underpowered and over-specialized. Just imagine, however, what confusion that would have been. A half-breed or "Vishivit" would only be detectable by the visual inspection which is readily fooled if heredical luck is on your side.