On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Maximilian Wilson wrote: > > >> On 1/23/06, Jon_Lincicum at stream.com <Jon_Lincicum at stream.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > Note; Lanya e'Kieron herself was a female, and the "founder" of the > >> > e'Lanya line. Hence, her descendants used their mother's name, rather > than > >> > their father's. > >> > > >> > >> [blinks] Somehow, I wasn't aware of that. > > > >Me neither. Wonder if there's any evidence. > > > >I would have guessed that one decided one's line based on one's own > >character and relationship to both parents in cases of mixed lineage. > > Textev for Lanya e'Kieron comes from TPG, pages 402-405 of the paperback > edition. (It's contained in a discussion between Uttrik and Kathana > e'Merich'Chala). AFB - are you saying that the line was entirely matrilineal, or only refuting the idea that lines are entirely patrilineal? The above sounds like the former.