> 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.) What I meant was: Is it a secret in the Dragaeran universe? Sure, Vlad doesn't find out until Phoenix, but probably just because no one bothered to tell him or thought it mattered. Does the majority of the House of Dragon, or the Court perhaps, know? It is Official?