Dragaera

[stevenbrust] Re: Dzur and Sex

Thu Jan 29 10:47:24 PST 2004


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.