Doesn't Devera call Vald "Uncle" at some point. So maybe, just maybe, it goes back much, much farther than that... Joy Jennifer Nicholson <jjnichol at MIT.EDU> wrote: To clarify, I mean to suggest that Aliera and Verra are both of Devera's parents, call them whatever you like. Not that I actually subscribe to this theory, but that I'm willing to play with it for a little longer before I decide against it. > > Maybe Verra is Devera's mother,