>Did Aliera have the amorphia ability in her life as Kieron's sister, >or is it new to her Verra/e'Kieron state? Not enough data. If we speculate that the ability to create amorphia through sheer willpower was bred into the race by the Jenonine as a trait that they desired in their lab rats/servants, then it seems reasonable to assume that all e'Kieron ancestors had the ability. (On a side note, wasn't "Aliera" Kieron's brother in that first life?) >If the former, is it really >an e'_Kieron_ trait, or a couple generations higher up the tree? >Vlad's history would suggest the latter, since it doesn't seem like >he's been anything but a Jhereg and/or Easterner since Dolivar got >kicked out of the House of the Dragon. This is where the whole idea of "only e'Kieron can create amorphia,and Vlad has an e'Kieron soul" kinda falls apart. It's a little difficult to reconcile the idea of reincarnation with the idea that only certain families have particular abilities. The only way I can see for it to work is if the Lords of Judgement prevent non-e'Kieron souls from reincarnating as e'Kieron (Aliera, for instance, has reincarnated from one e'Kieron life to another) or if a brand new soul (wherever they come from) is born into the e'Kieron line as its first life, thereby indelibly branding its soul with the ability. In that latter case, it might be that only "primary" e'Kieron descendants are born with the ability. Souls that are re-incarnated into the family line from other families do NOT have the ability and e'Kieron souls that are reincarnated into other families are simply unaware that they posess the ability. Dolivar's soul then becomes an aberration that slipped through the cracks or was deliberately shunted completely out of the Dragaeran afterlife as punishment for his bad karma.