[Dragaera] Breaking the Cycle - Genetic Purity

[Maximilian Wilson]

On 8/28/06, Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Perhaps there's something reasonable in the archives.  But I'm thinking
> about Pel in _TPG_ and why one can't tell a Yendi's house.  "Cuckoo" isn't
> the right word, except for its association to "cuckold" - but anyway the
> idea would have to be that male Yendi get (married) female non-Yendi
> pregnant,  passing on a dominant gene for Yendiness.  Those children are
> presumably indistinguishable by inspection, and good at fitting in and
> not raising suspicion, but eventually return to House Yendi.  You raise
> an Athyra, and you end up with the SiG.  You raise an Issola, and he
> disappears one day and becomes Pel (say).  The Yendi would thus (so the
> claim goes) be a hybrid house, like the Teckla or Jhereg, but with a
> constant overlay of the dominant Yendi gene.  (Skipping digression on
> green beard genes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green-beard_effect].)

Sounds like a good way to come out with a lot of non-Yendi
crossbreeds, if the Yendi male (say, Pel) passes on his non-Yendi
genes (say, Issola) instead.

-Maximilian

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