[Dragaera] Boing!

[Davdi Silverrock]

On 9/7/06, Maximilian Wilson wrote:
> On 9/7/06, Davdi Silverrock wrote:
> > On 9/7/06, Jon_Lincicum wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Well, in the reviewer's defense, he is basically paraphrasing Aliera's
> > > talk in chapter nine of /Jhereg/... Since the members of each House really
> > > *are* genetically descended from the animals that represent them (except
> > > for Jhereg), he statement is technically correct.
> >
> > I don't think so.  First of all, "descended" isn't really the right
> > term, since the genes were added by artificial manipulation.
> > Dragaerans are transgenic organisms, and the House of the Dragon is no
> > more descended from dragons than a genetically modified rabbit that
> > glows in the dark is descended from fluorescent jellyfish.
>
> Aliera claims that if you go far enough back, you'll "find actual
> dragons in [her] lineage." That doesn't sound like transgenic
> manipulation to me.
>

Hmph.  Aliera's been shown to be wrong about other statements she made
in that particular infodump.