Urth's Unknown Names

C R Culver27 Mar 1998, 02:49original

Just been thinking lately about secret, forgotten, or just plain unknown names in the BotNS: 1) Hethor's real name 2) The real name of the town that forgot Fauna 3) Valeria's second husband (who was he? any ideas?) 4) The names of the planets beside Urth, Verthandi, Skuld, and Dis. 5) The names of the 17 Megatherians (doesn't really matter, though), or a single member of the Group of Seventeen 6) The previous Lictor of Thrax. 7) Cyriaca's husband. 8) The name of Dorcas' ("Cas") husband. 9) The Cumaean's real name, if any. 10) The name (and purpose) of Baldanders' undine. Christopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com> http://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html

Peter Stephenson27 Mar 1998, 08:55original

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C R Culver wrote: Just been thinking lately about secret, forgotten, or just plain unknown names in the BotNS: 5) The names of the 17 Megatherians (doesn't really matter, though), or a single member of the Group of Seventeen

I always assumed the latter were referred to simply as `Member of the Group of Seventeen', or something such? It doesn't seem likely they go in for shining dinner party repartee (reminds me of a comedy sketch in a car factor with the punchline `Built by Roberts'). Is there any indication that the leaders, unlike the rest, have real names? I always associated Ascians with ASCII, maybe they're called NUL, BEL, ... Peter

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