> -----Original Message----- > From: David Silberstein [mailto:davids at kithrup.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 10:51 PM > To: Dragaera List > Subject: Re: Thoughts about Piro and Krytaan.... > > > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Philip Hart wrote: > > >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. > > 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. > > > And she is presumably genetically Dragon, maybe with some odd > >hemoglobin genes. > > > > Quite possibly. Yet Verra has made the claim of not being *ever* > human; of being a slave of the Jenoine before they ever arrived on > Dragaera. I have to wonder if perhaps the relationship between > Aliera and Verra is less genetically direct than they have currently > implied. > > I've also speculated that the Necromancer was Aliera's genetic mother. > Since she's a demon, who only showed up towards the end of the > Interregnum, I still wonder if someone else is the source for the > maternal half of Aliera's genes. > *Ah ha! It's speculation day. I LOVE WAG* specualtion days...... *rubs hands gleefully, kicks atomic powered imagination into gear* Devera is the result of Sethra and Aliera (with Vlad et al., of course) using parthenogenetics combined with Jenoine gene splicing to copy Verra (killed, tragically, in defense of Vlad whom she loves because he is also the soulicular reincarnation of Bartlett) so they can escape the Jenoine in The Last Contract. Morrolans WINDOW gets a massive jolt of chaos as Devera is thrown through. She is saved by Vlad and Godslayer, but as a result is tossed through time. Since she has all of Verra's memories (God's blood + parthenogenetics = automatic memory regression and recall) she uses her time shifting to assist those who valiantly made and saved her with the plus of being able to save her own future. We now return you to your conventional, non-radioactive speculation. Why, yes, I *have* had several cups of coffee this morning. Why do you ask ? Warlord * WAG = Wild Ass Guess