On 10/28/05, Rook <gisho at puddleofgoo.com> wrote: > > I've come up with another theory for how Aliera became the accepted Dragon > heir despite being half-God: She isn't half-God at all. Verra is her > "mother" because she bore her, but genetically, Aliera is in fact a clone of > Adron. As you note, there is in fact no evidence in favor of this theory and a lot of evidence against it--Aliera is unusually short for a Dragaeran, has a different hair color than Adron, and is a different sex; you handwave these inconvenient facts away by invoking Verra's presumed desire to have a short, blond, female clone of Adron for reasons unknown. At that point it becomes questionable whether it's necessary to your theory to have Aliera be a "clone" at all. My Bayesian detectors are screaming; this theory requires that you have a heavy prior-belief investment in Verra being "genetically" unrelated to Aliera. It would probably be simpler to postulate that Verra is somehow a Dragon herself. Not that I think that's necessary, but YMMV. Max Wilson -- Be pretty if you are, Be witty if you can, But be cheerful if it kills you.