>Waitaminit!!! Ibronka??? We know an Ibronka . . . I mean, everyone >*knows* that Dragaerans and humans can't breed, but there's always >exceptions . . . Oh, now I understand why the previous poster was asking a similar question. Ibronka is just an Eastern name. Whatever Dragaerans think of Easterners, Serioli, Kanefthali or other races in general they seem to have no problem at all adopting their names and occasionally their customs, food, language, etc... In Orca, for instance, the fruit seller has an odd way of speaking because his "people" had intermingled with a tribe of Serioli who had lived in the area and they'd picked up the Serioli speech patterns to a certain extent. Ishtvan and Mario are examples of Dragaerans with Eastern names. Piro's Ibronka is just another of those. She's not the same person as Noish-pa's Ibronka. They just share a name. As for inter-breeding, everyone in the Empire may "know" that Easterners and Dragaerans can't interbreed but that doesn't make it an actual fact. As I mentioned in a post a few days ago, Miklos wouldn't have asked Devera if she was "fully of Faerie blood" unless he thought it was possible for the two races to interbreed. In any case, it seems highly unlikely that Noish-pa, first-generation and fairly traditional, would have married an "elf" as he would see it. It also seems unlikely that Vlad would be unaware of that particular facet of his family tree.