# Scylla -- from Urth to Whorl? *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 29 Sep 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Greene, Carlton *29 Sep 1999, 19:42* Is there any connection between the monster Scylla mentioned in the BOTNS and Typhon's daughter Scyla dealt with in the Long Sun books? Is it possible that one or more of Typhon's children remained behind on Earth and took the route that Baldanders did, growing in human form until they became true monstrosities and going to live beneath the sea? Perhaps there are citations (though none occur to me now) that would allow one to place the period at which the "monsters" (Erebus and co.) appear and take their places beneath Urth's oceans -- perhaps these dates are contemporaneous with Typhon's reign. --- ### Urash, Tom *30 Sep 1999, 13:35 · follows Greene, Carlton* My understanding was that neither Typhon/Pas, his wife nor any of his children literally boarded the void ship, Whorl; that only highly functional and powerful software representations of the nine were planted in Mainframe [as were, possibly, some of their friends, lovers (Kypris?), servants and government cronies in the guise of the "minor gods"). So, yes, I think it highly likely most, and likely all, remained behind on Urth. > -----Original Message----- > From: Greene, Carlton [SMTP:CGreene2 at hunton.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 6:42 PM > To: urth at lists.best.com > Subject: (urth) Scylla -- from Urth to Whorl? > > Is there any connection between the monster Scylla mentioned in the BOTNS > and Typhon's daughter Scyla dealt with in the Long Sun books? Is it > possible that one or more of Typhon's children remained behind on Earth > and > took the route that Baldanders did, growing in human form until they > became > true monstrosities and going to live beneath the sea? Perhaps there are > citations (though none occur to me now) that would allow one to place the > period at which the "monsters" (Erebus and co.) appear and take their > places > beneath Urth's oceans -- perhaps these dates are contemporaneous with > Typhon's reign. > > works ---