Yes, true. If the genetics are perfect and there are no mutations then there is no genetic issue.
The Shrike Send a noteboard - 28/08/2017 08:06:57 PM
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I mean, it's really only an issue if you're repeating it for royal blood issues or because a smallish group of people have isolated themselves from the rest of the world geographically or for something like religious reasons.
I mean, it's really only an issue if you're repeating it for royal blood issues or because a smallish group of people have isolated themselves from the rest of the world geographically or for something like religious reasons.
Even brother-sister incest isn't that big of a deal until a couple of generations goes by. Icky, but not 'deformed babies' icky.
But if two people closely related are both carriers for a negative genetic mutation then that can quickly become a problem for their offspring. So madness could be a recessive trait that became an issue when the Targaryens kept marrying their brothers and sisters to each other.
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- 28/08/2017 04:50:02 PM
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Isn't incest really only a genetic problem if you do it over several generations?
- 28/08/2017 05:04:06 PM
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The problem is that Targaryens have been doing it. It's why Viserys and Aerys were nuts.
- 28/08/2017 07:22:28 PM
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Yes, true. If the genetics are perfect and there are no mutations then there is no genetic issue.
- 28/08/2017 08:06:57 PM
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We're worrying about scientific verisimilitude, when they say a medieval city has a million people?
- 29/08/2017 06:23:10 AM
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Ancient Rome actually is estimated to have just around one million at its peak.
- 05/09/2017 11:10:10 PM
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John can still do better 
On a different note, as much as I enjoyed *spoiler*
- 29/08/2017 06:43:49 AM
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On a different note, as much as I enjoyed *spoiler*
- 29/08/2017 06:43:49 AM
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marrying cousins only became taboo in recent history and even then mostly just in the west
- 29/08/2017 04:55:29 PM
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Well, in-universe, there was already an uncle-niece marriage that produced two kings.
- 29/08/2017 10:08:27 PM
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