Liveship Traders

[CLAWS]

Hi folks,

I am sure it is in the 2nd book but if anyone knows better, feel free to correct me.

In one of the books Ronica Vestrit is remembering one of Keffrias births. The child born was supposed to be something grotesque and was growling and screaming or something. Effron Vestrit had to take the child away.

Hobb never says where the child was taken and what the child was/was a result of.

Any ideas on this or am I just reading into this too much?

[The Curious Orange]

Originally Posted by CLAWS

Hi folks,

I am sure it is in the 2nd book but if anyone knows better, feel free to correct me.

In one of the books Ronica Vestrit is remembering one of Keffrias births. The child born was supposed to be something grotesque and was growling and screaming or something. Effron Vestrit had to take the child away.

Hobb never says where the child was taken and what the child was/was a result of.

Any ideas on this or am I just reading into this too much?

I assume this was because the Bingtown traders were related to the Rain River traders, and had occasionally interbred, and every so often you'd get these genetic throwbacks. The child would have been taken and raised by the Rain River traders.

[Overread]

Been a while, but I never got the impression that the Rainwald Traders ever took the children on, or that they were the result of interbreeding. Possibly an extended influence of the dragon causing mutation, but were not Rainwald children born without the changes? (correct me if I am wrong on this front).
Infact I always thought they became the seadragons, early on in the books - though later on this becomes an unlikly evntuality.
The children could also be the result of the Rainwald River and its acids affecting local water supplies; however I also recall that the slaves and I think the newsettlers in Bingtown did not have mutated children - either that points to a more genetic link or it was an area that was not touched upon by the book - remember that the slaves only became established very recently.