Yeah, at the very least I assume that there's something intermediate where Aliera finds out about her. We know she's been regularly visiting Cawti and Vlad Jr.
(Random side note on mini-Vlad: I think this might be the only example in fiction that I can think of with a male baby being named after a female character - his middle name. Dragaeran names being mostly gender-neutral is helpful with this. But man, I love how this series handles gender.)
Anyway ... that's a really good point about Devera maybe not being born yet, even now. I guess that once we discovered what she really is, I thought she was born while Aliera was in the Halls of Judgment the first time and has been essentially around since before Aliera was rescued (having grown to the age that she currently is while being raised mostly by Verra and perhaps Keiron), but there's no reason at all why she has to be, especially since she's chronologically unmoored. Her conception/birth could easily be something that happens in the characters' future even though it's already happened for her. Maybe she's going to have a normal babyhood with future!Aliera in 10 or 20 years from now, book-time.
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(Random side note on mini-Vlad: I think this might be the only example in fiction that I can think of with a male baby being named after a female character - his middle name. Dragaeran names being mostly gender-neutral is helpful with this. But man, I love how this series handles gender.)
Anyway ... that's a really good point about Devera maybe not being born yet, even now. I guess that once we discovered what she really is, I thought she was born while Aliera was in the Halls of Judgment the first time and has been essentially around since before Aliera was rescued (having grown to the age that she currently is while being raised mostly by Verra and perhaps Keiron), but there's no reason at all why she has to be, especially since she's chronologically unmoored. Her conception/birth could easily be something that happens in the characters' future even though it's already happened for her. Maybe she's going to have a normal babyhood with future!Aliera in 10 or 20 years from now, book-time.