Dragaera

Gene testing

Mark A. Mandel thnidu at yahoo.com
Sat May 7 14:09:07 PDT 2005

--- Maximilian Wilson <wilson.max at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/2/05, Scott Schultz <scott at cjhunter.com> wrote:

> > 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) 
> 
> But that's my point. She wasn't an e'Kieron in her first life. She was
> Kieron's sister (sibling), not one of his descendants. Same with Vlad.
> So it's not actually an e'Kieron ability; at most a e'[insert Kieron's
> mother's/father's name] ability.

When "e'Somebody" is used as the name of the bloodline for the descendents of Somebody,
the name is dynastic or honorific, not strictly genetic. Read the name "e'Kieron" in
Scott's argument as referring to this bloodline, not meaning literally "descended from
Kieron".

-- Mark A. Mandel
   http://cracksandshards.com
   a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website
   [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]
 


		
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