> > > >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. > > I'm not talking about some "naive Dragon", presumably a kid, > challenging her *now*. I'm talking about the entire Dragon Council, > while Aliera was still an infant. > > Given that lineage is important enough to go to war over, I think even > Adron and Verra would have to provide *some* evidence of legitimacy. > Otherwise, well, I think we would have heard about the battle that > laid waste to half the Empire for Aliera's sake. > > I've speculated elsewhere that Verra manifested and laid down the law > to the Council, but that still means that they have to reconcile it in > their own minds and in the official lineage records. I doubt they see it as a real big problem with thier view of the gods. I admit that it is easier to think of Verra and her Ilk from Vlad's point of view as a semi-mythical personage to be worshipped (although very tentatively in Vlad's case) then to wrap my head around a god being just another person to be met, invited to tea and crumpets, and then "Knocked Up" during a wild Christmas party. Which begs a question. Do you think that Verra had a hard delivery with Aliera, or did she use her godly powers as mythical morphine?