# The wounded sun *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 18 Nov 2002* > 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. --- ### Roy C. Lackey *18 Nov 2002, 19:45* >> Dan'l quoted and wrote: >> The wounding of Urth's sun, whether directly by Typhon's >> actions or as retribution for them, had no galaxy-wide ripple >> effect. > This puzzles me. I have wondered for some time just why many > of the participants on this list assume that the wounding of > the Old Sun took place during the reign of Typhon. In reading > the Typhon-era passages of UotNS, I received the distinct > impression that Typhon reigned under a wounded Old Sun. Can > anyone give some specifics? You have to go back to SWORD for the answer (chapter XXV). Typhon speaking: "It was a period of great confusion as well. My astronomers had told me that this sun's activity would decay slowly. Far too slowly, in fact, for the change to be noticeable in a human lifetime. They were wrong. The heat of the world declined by nearly two parts in a thousand over a few years, then stabilized. Crops failed, and there were famines and riots. I should have left then." -Roy --- ### cilluff1 at optonline.net *18 Nov 2002, 19:52 · follows Roy C. Lackey* Good eye, Roy! That's exactly the passage that I (and I'm sure Dan'l) were recollecting! Original Message: ----------------- From: Roy C. Lackey rclackey at stic.net Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:45:06 -0600 To: urth at urth.net Subject: (urth) The wounded sun >> Dan'l quoted and wrote: >> The wounding of Urth's sun, whether directly by Typhon's >> actions or as retribution for them, had no galaxy-wide ripple >> effect. > This puzzles me. I have wondered for some time just why many > of the participants on this list assume that the wounding of > the Old Sun took place during the reign of Typhon. In reading > the Typhon-era passages of UotNS, I received the distinct > impression that Typhon reigned under a wounded Old Sun. Can > anyone give some specifics? You have to go back to SWORD for the answer (chapter XXV). Typhon speaking: "It was a period of great confusion as well. My astronomers had told me that this sun's activity would decay slowly. Far too slowly, in fact, for the change to be noticeable in a human lifetime. They were wrong. The heat of the world declined by nearly two parts in a thousand over a few years, then stabilized. Crops failed, and there were famines and riots. I should have left then." -Roy ``` To unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe" to urth-request at urth.net ``` --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *18 Nov 2002, 19:58 · follows cilluff1 at optonline.net* > Good eye, Roy! That's exactly the passage that I (and I'm=20 > sure Dan'l) were recollecting! Yep. I sit corrected. ---