FWD to list ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Michele Riccio" <mr1 at rcosta.com> Reply-To: mr1 at rcosta.com To: "J C" <greyw01f at hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Soul destroying - Issola Spoiler Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:35:06 -0500 On 10 Nov 2005 at 22:00, J C wrote > I think that, given that Dragaerans get married at roughly 150 years > of age, they have a relatively short fertility period. Else, you > could have a elder brother over 1000 years your senior. > > Savn and his sister are very close in age--probably less than a > century, I think around 2 or 3 score of years apart. Very close, in > other words, considering a 2500 year life span. > > What do you guys think? > > Jon > At some point, Vlad says that Dragaerans can not get pregnant accidentally. Either he's being flippant and exaggerating the situation (quite possible) or they have some sort of birth control mechanism (innate or applied) to achieve this. So, in essence, all pregnancies are planned. The age differences in children, and the number of children would be strictly controlled. No? Has this been discussed before? I feel like I'm borrowing someone's argument. M Michele Riccio mr1 at rcosta.com