At 04:16 PM 1/23/2004, Mark A Mandel wrote: >On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Trager wrote: > >#That was how I'd always guessed it. ># >#Then again, Aliera might have decided in the PotD that Kieron was just >#really hot, so she took his sword to give her a pretext to see him >#again. For personal reasons, not the political ones we'd always >#assumed. > >Ahhh... weren't they brother and sister in Kieron's lifetime, along with >Vlad? That was certainly how *I* understood it. I'm not sure what the implications are, since Aliera is a _reincarnation_ of Kieron's sister (and likewise Vlad of Kieron's brother)... Presumably any blood relationship is very remote (unless Kieron "came back" by being reincarnated as someone related to Aliera), but still...