# Gilling's killer (was Re: The Wizard - questions -- answers (spoiler)) *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 03 Jan 2005* > 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. --- ### David DiGiacomo *03 Jan 2005, 22:45* > From: "Russell Wodell" > > What would be Sir Garvaon's motive for killing Gilling? (Rhyme > unintentional) And why would Wolfe conceal this for so long? Jealousy. Garvaon loved Idnn, and was obviously a more worthy suitor than either the monstrous Gilling or the cowardly Svon. It wasn't concealed for very long, as Wolfe's puzzles go. > For this and other reasons, I am fairly certain that Iddn is the murderer. When Able says that the killer cannot be punished, Garvaon is dead, but Idnn is still alive. > She agreed to marry Gilling to achieve power, which she maintains with her > army of giantesses, but killed him because sexual congress would mean her > death either in coitus or in giving birth to a giant, as Wolfe makes > gruesomely explicit. I wondered about that, since I don't remember another mention of the mothers of the Mice having difficult births. Of course, I don't understand why the human women wouldn't take simple precautions to avoid pregnancy. Based on Wolfe's peculiarly graphic descriptions, the giants wouldn't notice or care. --- ### Andy Robertson *04 Jan 2005, 01:07 · in reply to David DiGiacomo* Any thoughts on why the blood of the Angrborn is full of parasites? Aside from just making them seeem extra vile? --- ### Andrew Bollen *04 Jan 2005, 01:13 · in reply to Andy Robertson* > Andy Robertson wrote: > Any thoughts on why the blood of the Angrborn is full of parasites? > Aside from just making them seeem extra vile? No, but maybe it's just an image Wolfe liked & recycled. The giant in ummm that story about dwarves killing a giant in the errrr recent collection (retarded with names, sorry) had macro-things living in his blood also. ---