> If > you wonder if > maybe the Jenoine did find Easterners interesting enough in themselves > to tinker with, as opposed to just being a control so they > could see how > much better the new and improved Dragons were compared to Easterners, > the question becomes what interested them? I haven't seen any evidence that the Jenoine found Easterners interesting as anything other than breeding stock/control group. Dragaerans have the same "psionic" ability that the Jenoine put into the Easterners. They just don't use it the same way. I generally imagine that it was a requirement as a first step towards the ability to manipulate amorphia. This is also why the Easterners were segregated from the Dragaerans via the Eastern/Western mountains. They wouldn't be any good as a control group otherwise. > In this theory, possibly the reason only the e'Kieron Dragaerans have > the ability is that Verra was only able to sneak one unsuppressed > Dragaeran past her Jenoine supervisors. > I think I posted this speculation already, but my idea on this is that the creation of those Dragaerans who became the e'Kieron line was the goal of the experiment. The success of the breeding program was likely the event that triggered the revolt of Verra and her fellow slaves. I don't believe the others are supressed. They just don't have the "genetic" patterns to support the ability. (When you're talking "genes" that are a part of the soul instead of the body you're talking something other than what we think of as genetics anyway.) > (Or does anyone know of any textevd about whether Kieron was > created in > a Jenoine lab, as opposed to being born a few generations > later? Nope, we don't really know how much time passed between the Revolt and the Migration. Aliera and Vlad (who both have the amorphia summoning ability) represent Kieron's siblings, so Kieron was certainly not the first of the "genetic" line. He was simply the first one famous enough to warrant the rest of the family naming themselves in honor of him. There were probably a few generations of parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, etc... before him, but again we don't know one way or the other.