"Joy Nicholson" <joyjnicholson at gmail.com> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 06/15/06 10:19 AM To "Martin Wohlert" <martin_wohlert at hotmail.com> cc dragaera at dragaera.info Subject Re: Multi-jointed fingers >On 6/15/06, Martin Wohlert <martin_wohlert at hotmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm sure it would be much harder keeping Aliera's mother a secret if she was >> "mutated" like that. I'm sure Vlad would have mentioned it sometime. And, >> consequently I don't see why Devera would look like that. >> > >Is Aliera's maternity a secret? I've always wondered whether being >only half Dragon could have disqualified Aliera from being heir. Verra was revealed to be Aliera's mother near the end of /Phoenix/... So it *was* a secret for the first four and a half books of the Vlad series... (This could be called the greater Phoneix spoiler, I suppose... but it's old enough that it probably doesn't need spoiler warnings.) I wouldn't expect that having a mother who is a god (and the patron god of many members of your house) would be held against you...rather the reverse. I would expect only the Lyorn (or perhaps the Phoenix) would have a problem with this parentage. Majikjon