It's...my schooling was in history, not science, but when you mix genes too much, you run the risk of birth defects, poor fertility, certain diseases. Have you had any experience with that?
We haven't undergone any testing like that, no. But we don't make a habit of marrying our cousins.
Hm, but the smallfolk have a saying. When a dragon is born, the gods flip a coin. Madness or mediocrity, they would say. We are otherwise ourselves whole.
If anything, our blood is ever fertile. My mother has four children, my uncle four, my sister two, my half-sister five.
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Date: 2024-10-06 05:56 am (UTC)That it does.
Is inbreeding a genetics thing? I've heard tell of it from another, how it can read the lineage in one's blood. A dna test, I think it was called.
Did you have one of these things? Is it something you undergo with your own family?
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Date: 2024-10-06 06:06 am (UTC)We haven't undergone any testing like that, no. But we don't make a habit of marrying our cousins.
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Date: 2024-10-06 12:02 pm (UTC)No.
Hm, but the smallfolk have a saying. When a dragon is born, the gods flip a coin. Madness or mediocrity, they would say. We are otherwise ourselves whole.
If anything, our blood is ever fertile. My mother has four children, my uncle four, my sister two, my half-sister five.
Three, I suppose.
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Date: 2024-10-06 09:27 pm (UTC)50s understanding of mental illness incoming
Date: 2024-10-06 09:56 pm (UTC)Mental illness is like, madness. Sick in the head, unstable.
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Date: 2024-10-06 10:03 pm (UTC)These are matters of the blood, in your world?
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Date: 2024-10-07 04:38 am (UTC)[ And the library snubbed him...anyway. ]
But we have a few in-house. Maybe once all this chaos is over, they can talk about it more intelligently than I can.
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Date: 2024-10-09 05:16 pm (UTC)But before Saltburnt, I worked for a powerful man, whose hubris went unchecked. He grew more corrupt, more stupid, and more sloppy over time.