Joy Jennifer Nicholson <jjnichol at MIT.EDU> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 02/15/06 08:42 AM To Louis Eastman <almagaiz at gmail.com> cc dragaera at dragaera.info Subject Re: Speculations about Sethra and the Lavodes (Was RE: TEST) >Dragaerans can prevent pregnancy using sorcery, so many of them may >not menstruate at all, except when they choose to. One imagines that >Sethra, with her command of sorcery, could find a way to become >fertile. We don't know this. Sorcery is the "popular" theory, but all we know for sure is that Vlad thinks Dragaerans can't get pregnant by accident. The method of contraception (or even if it really *is* what we would consider to be contraception) is completely unknown to us. I've seen at least three strong competing theories for it: 1) Sorcererous contraception, 2) Long-lived Dragaeran have slow ovulation cycles, and 3) The idea that Dragaeran females are only fertile for a brief period (say 100 years) during their lifespan. But there may be other "cooler" ideas out there, as well. Majikjon