Me>> If the child is a bastard, then he takes his maternal
>> grandfather's caste. This is what the Brithini did >> with Arkat. It causes a good deal of disgrace and I >> don't think Bastards can inherit or hold titles.
> This makes the question of Wizards tricky whether the product of
> wizards "randomly impregnating peasant girls" (per HtWWW) or the
> childeren of the "father superior" and the cloistered nuns who show
> "disturbing magical ability" per your earlier post though, unless
> (either or both) of these are considered some kind of "marriage"
Well since the nuns are said in the Reaching Moon writeup (or somewhere) to be Brides of Rokar, the marriage excuse is IMO the official explanation.
--Peter Metcalfe
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