On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Greg Morrow wrote: #Note that, apparently from Aliera's case, being half-god doesn't count as #being a cross-breed, which is moderately interesting considering the #general Dragaeran opinion of gods, which implies that cross-breeding with #gods is OK because gods are powerful, not because gods are divine (or #otherwise special). Or maybe because gods aren't of a Dragaeran House. Maybe the taboo is only, or primarily, on cross-HOUSE pairing. Aibynn is a Houseless Dragaeran (by race, not as in "citizen of the Empire"), an immigrant or refugee from Greenaere. If he doesn't join a House, I postulate that he could still marry and father a child without stigma, or at least without the stigma attaching to inter-House marriage and parentage. -- Mark A. Mandel