Pardon the top-posting. I can't tell what is what below. I haven't done a whole lot of thinking about Dragaeran theology, but I think I remember that the Gods are beings capable of manifesting in any plane of existence (barring being killed in one of the planes, as Morrolan killed a god once). Surely, Verra may, therefore, manifest in Dragaera as a Dragaeran? She must have, to have conceived and borne Aliera. At 17:11 10/28/2005, Doug Croteau wrote: >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. > >----- Original Message ----- 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. > -- Regards, Pete pgranzeau at cox.net