"Perhaps, and then again, perhaps not. I do not have many children at all -- my sorcery being a little too strong for my flesh. No daughters. Not a one of my sons inherited even a fraction of my power, and I knew not my own mother in this world. I have never seen how a womanly relative of mine should look."
"I could be your father of the blood. Or your grandfather. Or we might not be related at all. If this Su'an traveled, it might be impossible to ever say."
"I shall see what my records have to say of the matter."