>Where did the inhabitants of Greenaere come from? I'm >remembering something about the mainland (Dragaera) invading >the islands several times...but I could be wrong. >Assuming (and I know that I'm opening myself for attack now) that >Greenaere's population is made up of the ancestors of said >invaders. Is it plausible that all houses were represented? I don't >suppose that the Jhereg care what Aibynn's genes are like, but now >I'm wondering... I think that there are four possibilities. One the empire colonized, but the colonies rebelled for whatever reason and eventually interbred. Personally I find this least likely because the Empire has a pretty clear definition of citizens and the House culture is firmly rooted, but I guess where the Orb cannot reach it would make a lot of sense, and there are so many generations between the formation of the empire and Vlad's time that it is very possible. Two the people are descendants from other tribes that existed there before the empire and never considered joining. Three Crossbreeds, people in love, exiles ect. decide they don't like the empire and go outside its boundaries developing an independent society. Four, (my personal favorite) the J set up the population of Greenaere as a control group for their experiments. These people were not mixed with any animal. It would be a good idea to put them on islands for this purpose. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!