Dragaera

Twins

Howard Brazee howard at brazee.net
Mon Dec 12 10:42:50 PST 2005

Grady Brandt wrote:

>On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 20:21:29 -0500, Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com>  
>wrote:
>
>> On 12/9/05, Jon_Lincicum at stream.com <Jon_Lincicum at stream.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>Animal husbandry should give them the concept of multiple births. However  
>it may not follow that they know the concept of "identical" twins or that  
>humans or Easterners might have multiple births. I don't recall any  
>mention of such in the texts personally but I'm hardly as encyclopedic as  
>some others here.
>
>  
>
Animal husbandry combined with the genetic science that they have shown 
to have will give them such understanding.   I wouldn't be surprised if 
they could create identical twins when desired for some royal or noble 
inheritance purpose.