Dragaera

Soul destroying - Issola Spoiler

Kenneth Gorelick pulmon at mac.com
Fri Nov 11 09:49:06 PST 2005

On Nov 11, 2005, at 12:42 PM, J C wrote:

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> FWD to list
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> ----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
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> On 10 Nov 2005 at 22:00, J C wrote
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> > 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
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> Michele Riccio
> mr1 at rcosta.com
>

Complete control of fertility is a post-interregnum phenomenon.  
Earlier, when sorcery was less potent, there were occasional  
"unfortunate individuals" who owed their existence to untrammeled  
passion with inadequate protection.