On Feb 15, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Peter H. Granzeau wrote: > 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). > Oh yeah? How about the famous joke that ends, "she's not dead, she's ,,," (insert your favorite ethnic group best characterized by being lifeless in bed)