The wounded sun
The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 18 Nov 2002
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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

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cilluff1 at optonline.net — 18 Nov 2002, 19:52
  follows, by subject match Roy C. Lackey

Good eye, Roy!  That's exactly the passage that I (and I'm sure Dan'l) were
recollecting!

Original Message:
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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

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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes — 18 Nov 2002, 19:58
  follows, by subject match 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.

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