Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 01/30/06 04:58 PM To Dragaera List <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject Re: the honing of Vlad (was Re: How much does Vlad *really*knowabout Kragar?) >On 1/30/06, S. Hall <incubusyouth at hotmail.com> wrote: >> how in the hell do you tell which becomes dominant? the male parent? then >> what about the lines that follow the females? can you be given the wrong >> "surname" for lack of a better term? it's all quite a mess, really :/ >> > >Well, that would explain *exactly* why genescanning is used among Dragons. > >See also the quote I posted about the Dragon who "thought" that he >took more after his e'Terics father than his e'Drien mother. If he >was uncertain, he could just have himself genescanned. Do we have any clues as to when performing genescans became common? Certainly they were already in use during Tortaalik's reign, since one was used on Norathar at that time. But is this one of those things that stretches back into antiquity, or is genescanning a relatively recent innovation? (like within the last cycle or two?) And if it is comparitively recent, how did the Dragon lineages work before it was developed? Majikjon