On 12/9/05, Jon_Lincicum at stream.com <Jon_Lincicum at stream.com> wrote: > On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Philip Hart [correcting attribution here] wrote: > > >Are there any references to Dragaeran twins, btw? > > None. > > Of course, there are no references to Easterner twins, either (not even in > BP), so this doesn't count for very much. > While there are no hits on "twins", booksearch does find 3 uses of "twin"; once as a synonym for "two", once as being short for "two identical", and once as being short for "identical copy". Perhaps a liberty taken by the translator, but also perhaps signifying that the *concept* of twins does exist. Thinking about it a bit, even if Dragaerans themselves never give birth to twins, they may be familiar with other species (including Easterners) that do sometimes give birth to twins.