Elaine was the first to rush to the unconscious Knight once the storm of energy finally subsided, and when she reached him and saw how drastically his body had changed, shock washed over her.
Confusion followed just as quickly, as she couldn't immediately understand how he'd suddenly gained dragon traits, but after recalling the former Mage's words and the things Arthur had taught her, the answer fell into place.
"Atavism," she muttered.
Arthur had taught her that what decided a person's race were the Race Factors they possessed, and that even when someone belonged to a specific race, they didn't always possess 100% of that race's factors.
In cases where the blood of another race had entered a family line, those foreign factors might dilute over generations, decreasing as time passed, but they wouldn't necessarily disappear entirely and would continue being passed down.
