On Apr 11, 2005 4:40 AM, Juliette Torres <juliette_torres at yahoo.com> wrote: > The thing that gets me is, even once Aliera's > parentage is verified and accepted, how can she be > Dragon Heir? As far as I can tell, she's not only a > bastard (did I miss Adron's and Verra's nuptials?) but > also a half-breed (I'm not sure what Verra is, but I'm > pretty sure she's not a Dragonlord). I've asked this > question of anyone I thought could answer, and I > generally get some variation of, "Dude, she's the > daughter of a Goddess. Are you really gonna call her a > half-breed bastard?" The other weird thing that gets me about this half-breed business is, <Issola spoilers> Sethra says Verra came from "yet another world" than the Dragaerans, and Verra herself says in Taltos that she was never human... why is she fertile with Dragaerans? Does the backstory include some kind of panspermia from wherever the original human place is (Earth?), so that she's still biologically related to humans? Or did she somehow shapechange into a Dragon--in classical mythological fashion--in order to conceive Aliera? If so, that might answer the "half-breed" purity question in the eyes of the Dragon Council. Note that Devera looks like a Dragonlord to Mica's eyes. Max Wilson -- I die! I mis-remember my friend's telephone number and dial into a hydroelectric dam's power line, electrocuting myself. My roommates mistake my flailing spasms for sign language, coincidentally describing a delicious recipe for fried tungsten with petroleum jelly. They try the recipe. All die! O, the embarassment.