It could also be something recessive enough that it was carried, but not visible, for a few generations; some things can be dormant like that for quite a while. []
Mmm. And I don't exactly have enough information to say if the ones on Gaea that were born with it, had such because of some side-effect of the ambient magic at some point, or if it was just a perfectly natural genetic quirk.
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Date: 2011-09-09 06:50 am (UTC)From:Mmm. And I don't exactly have enough information to say if the ones on Gaea that were born with it, had such because of some side-effect of the ambient magic at some point, or if it was just a perfectly natural genetic quirk.