On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote: > Joy Jennifer Nicholson <jjnichol at MIT.EDU> > > >According to Morrolan in Talsos, he is the eldest son of Aliera's > >father's youngest sister. So that means that Adron could create > >amorphia and passed it on to Aliera, but Adron's sister either didn't > >have the trait or didn't pass it on to Morrolan. That makes it a > >recessive trait? Not that I see. Adron has one copy, his sister doesn't; or she does but her child doesn't. Also note that Verra has something in mind here, judging from _TEoDM_. > That was my basic point. We don't know that Adron *could* create amorphia. > We never see him do so, and Aliera never says he could, either. Note that _Issola_ shows that Adron has a special relationship with amorphia. Readers of Michael Swanwick's great novel _The Iron Dragon's Daughter_ will recall his portrait of powerful nobles related to chaos. Perhaps something of the sort is going on - perhaps the E'Kierons were recognized by amorphia - that is, it came to know their genes and souls, or they have a family connection. As best I recall Aliera describes becoming an Elder Sorcerer as getting to know chaos and getting it to know the sorcerer.