I always thought of it as something more like 'eh'. > --- "Iain E. Davis" <feaelin at kemenel.org> wrote: > > 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... > > "Aliera e'Kieron" means she's descended from him, right? So there > is a blood relationship. No doubt very remote, as you say. > > By the way, since we're talking about female Dragaerans too, do Dragons > ever inherit their "e'" surname from their mother? And will Steven > ever record a Dragon's name so we can hear how that prefix is > pronounced? (I suspect it's ee as in tree.) > > Jerry Friedman > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ > >