On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Mark A Mandel wrote: > 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. I'd bet an orb that Aibynn is of sub-Jhereg status at best and sub-Teckla status at worst (more likely the latter) and would be treated as such for questions of stigma.