Alera's Dragon-ness - alternate theory

I would think that if one actually became a god, one could choose ones new 
make and model so to speak. The gods appears as widely varied as anyone 
could imagine, the consistancy is inconsistancy, much like human whim. It is 
my opinion they choose their own forms.

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From: "Rook " <gisho at puddleofgoo.com>
To: "rone" <rone at ennui.org>; "SKZB List" <dragaera at dragaera.info>
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: Alera's Dragon-ness - alternate theory


>
>>  I would also imagine that she passed the genetic tests as being a 
>> full-blooded Dragon, or else the House wouldn't've approved her being the 
>> Heir.  There's no reason to have her godly provenance show up in 
>> something so mundane as a genetic test.
>
> There's been discussion of this before, and whether gods are considered 
> "of all houses" , or if it was simply that nobody wanted to argue the 
> point. I'm inclined to believe that she *tested* full Dragon, rather than 
> the Dragon Council somehow agreeing that godly genetics got a special 
> pass, especially since Dragerans don't worship the gods.
>
> The thing is, even if Verra's a god now, she's also a different species. 
> Whatever she is existed before the Jenoine even created Dragaerans. If 
> Aliera is her daughter genetically, and this is why "the blood of a god" 
> allowed her to leave the paths, then surely it would have shown up on a 
> scan. And if Aliera *is* Verra's daughter gentically, that means she 
> herself is an interspecies crossbreed, which probably means it took a lot 
> of tinkering to make her.
>
> I don't know what the genetic work involved in creating a viable, fertile 
> interspecies crossbreed would be, or whether it would be more or less 
> difficult than tinkering with a clone to make it look different from its 
> parent.
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