At 10:07 PM 2/14/2006, Kenneth Gorelick wrote: >On Feb 14, 2006, at 6:53 PM, Scott Schultz wrote: > >>>Until Vlad, you mean... >>Vlad as Sethra's offspring? I'd be interested in hearing where that >>theory comes from, especially given that Sethra would have been (un)dead >>at the time that Vlad was conceived. >> >>In any case, he doesn't show on her lineage block. ;-) >But think how much that explains about Vlad's father...the interest >of Sethra and her alter ego...and what does being undead have to do >with getting pregnant? The undead can't foster life? Do they have >intestinal flora? I have never heard any compelling evidence that an >undead vampire cannot conceive and bear a child. I know nothing, NOZ-ZINK! about Dragaeran reproductive biology, but it strikes me that her death may have ended Sethra's reproductive usefulness--it seems to work that way, normally, at least. And there's always the situation of different species and hybridization (Vlad, it appears, is not sterile). -- Regards, Pete pgranzeau at cox.net