On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:45:18 -0400, Maximilian Wilson <wilson.max at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 Or, put another way, if you're going to suggest that Verra modified a clone of Adron because she wanted a blond short daughter I'd ask why Verra couldn't have instead modified her part of Aliera's genetics to make Aliera test full-blooded Dragon. It makes more logical sense than randomly deciding on some traits for a daughter, but of course Verra is involved so logic may be a point against the idea. -- Everything works in Theory. I need to learn how to program in Theory.