On Feb 15, 2006, at 12:04 PM, Howard Brazee wrote: > Joy Jennifer Nicholson wrote: > >> 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. >> > It all depends on what "undead" means. She doesn't appear to be > anything extraordinary, but she has died and come back via a > mechanism that hasn't been explained. But whomever created this > situation is powerful enough to set rules which she hasn't been > willing to overtly fight. > > I don't think fertility is an urgent need here. She might have > long term plans of returning to mortality. But she probably has > lots of long term plans of a grander nature. I guess being mother to the reborn brother of Kieron, the founder of the Jhereg, now wielder of a Great Weapon, with whom she fights side by side to defeat the Jenoine would not have had a great deal of interest for her, eh?