According to Steven Brust, in Vlad's time, Aliera e'Kieron has Mario as a lover (presumably again), but at some point in the near future will become intimate with Kieron the Conqueror in the Paths of the Dead, conceiving Devera. That last may seem... icky to some, but Won't it be interesting if this means she enters and leaves the Paths a second time alive? See also Speculation:Devera.