> -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Schultz [mailto:scott at cjhunter.com] > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 5:06 PM > To: dragaera at dragaera.info > Subject: RE: Gene testing > > >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. Vlad asks Aliera how genetics interacts with reincarnation of the soul. If I recall, her response is something like "Oddly."