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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Mister Incognito)
Subject: ED QUestion- Dragon Kin
Date: Wed Jan 31 12:05:03 2001
By Dragon Kin I mean people whose mothers slept with a dragon in human form
thus making them half dragon. There was a small thread on this ages ago that
I can't seem to find now.

Anyway, all I really want is for someone with any ED experience to tell me
what the physical clues for these guys are- IIRC it was weird coloured eyes,
small patches of sclaes somewhere on their bodies etc.

Do any of the books mention anything like having mutated fingers or the
like. Reason I ask is that a supporting charecter from a recent novel- Tails
You Lose- has a genetic defect where he doesn't have any small fingers on
either hand. That and a few other vague references made me think that he
might be Dragon Kin.

Cheers.
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Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Phil Smith)
Subject: ED QUestion- Dragon Kin
Date: Wed Jan 31 12:40:01 2001
>From: "Mister Incognito" <misterincognito@*******.com>
>By Dragon Kin I mean people whose mothers slept with a dragon in human form
>thus making them half dragon. There was a small thread on this ages ago
>that
>I can't seem to find now.

I remember that thread. Basically the end result was;

A slightly tweaked version of my Dragonkin article:

Dragonkin are individuals born to a dragon and a member of a metahuman race,
they retain most of the characteristics of their metahuman parent apart from
heightened mental abilitys, an invariable magical nature, low light vision
and some kind of physical deformity. The decendents of such individuals
will retain such characteristics for many generations until the dragon blood
within them becomes too diluted. The mating of a dragon and a metahuman is
forbidden by dragon tradition, making dragonkin all but a theoretical
creature in the sixth world, although some fourth world (or earlier)
dragon kin have survived into the sixth world as the Immortal Elves.
Individuals throughout Europe have been found with very diluted dragon blood
which expressed itself in certain degrees after the awakening.

New Seattle pg 103-104 mentions a Triad member named Dragon-eyes, whose eyes
match a dragon-kin trait. He's rumored to be the offspring of a
shapechanged dragon and a human. Apart from that SR dragons seem to have
been behaving themselves.

>Anyway, all I really want is for someone with any ED experience to tell me
>what the physical clues for these guys are- IIRC it was weird coloured
>eyes,
>small patches of sclaes somewhere on their bodies etc.

Deformities are normally slitted-eyes, patches of scales, small horns or
even a tail.

>Do any of the books mention anything like having mutated fingers or the
>like.

New Seattle pg 103-104 mentions a Triad member named Dragon-eyes, whose eyes
match a dragon-kin trait. He's rumored to be the offspring of a
shapechanged dragon and a human. Apart from that SR dragons seem to have
been behaving themselves.

If you want first hand information the ED Dragons book may still be
available to download from the FASA website.

Phil

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don't worry about it, yes, you're going to have to kill someone."
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Message no. 3
From: shadowrn@*********.com (waylex)
Subject: ED QUestion- Dragon Kin
Date: Wed Jan 31 13:30:01 2001
> Do any of the books mention anything like having mutated fingers or the
> like. Reason I ask is that a supporting charecter from a recent novel-
Tails
> You Lose- has a genetic defect where he doesn't have any small fingers on
> either hand. That and a few other vague references made me think that he
> might be Dragon Kin.

Try downloading the ED Dragons sourcebook from the FASA site, I think its
still there, IIRC it contains some information regarding this. It also has
more rules on drakes and other such creatures.
Message no. 4
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Ahrain Drigar)
Subject: ED QUestion- Dragon Kin
Date: Thu Feb 1 09:25:04 2001
----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Smith <phil_urbanhell@*******.com>
Subject: Re: ED QUestion- Dragon Kin


> Dragonkin are individuals born to a dragon and a member of a metahuman
race,
> they retain most of the characteristics of their metahuman parent apart
from
> heightened mental abilitys, an invariable magical nature, low light vision
> and some kind of physical deformity. The decendents of such individuals
> will retain such characteristics for many generations until the dragon
blood
> within them becomes too diluted. The mating of a dragon and a metahuman
is
> forbidden by dragon tradition, making dragonkin all but a theoretical
> creature in the sixth world, although some fourth world (or earlier)
> dragon kin have survived into the sixth world as the Immortal Elves.
> Individuals throughout Europe have been found with very diluted dragon
blood
> which expressed itself in certain degrees after the awakening.
>
> New Seattle pg 103-104 mentions a Triad member named Dragon-eyes, whose
eyes
> match a dragon-kin trait. He's rumored to be the offspring of a
> shapechanged dragon and a human. Apart from that SR dragons seem to have
> been behaving themselves.
>

Ahrain slips temporarily from "too much work/too little time" mode to ask:

Hey, Phil, do you think something like the white parts of the eyes
(biological name escapes me now) being an odd color would suffice? What I
mean is sort of like Fremmen eyes from Dune.

Just want an opinion.

Thanks,
Ahrain *slips screaming back into........temporal
....problems......NNNNOOOOOOO!*
Message no. 5
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Phil Smith)
Subject: ED QUestion- Dragon Kin
Date: Thu Feb 1 11:15:01 2001
>From: "Ahrain Drigar" <Ahrain_Drigar@*******.com>
>Ahrain slips temporarily from "too much work/too little time" mode to ask:
>
>Hey, Phil, do you think something like the white parts of the eyes
>(biological name escapes me now) being an odd color would suffice? What I
>mean is sort of like Fremmen eyes from Dune.

I can't see why not. Other interesting deformities could include *flicks
through werewolf* albino, blindness, hairless, hunchback, no sense of smell,
a weak immune system or a withered limb.

Phil

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