Hieros vs Hierogrammates

Roy C. Lackey · 27 Apr 2006, 05:07 · from 2006-April.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:07:05 -0500
Subject: (urth) Hieros vs Hierogrammates
Message-ID: <000801c669b8$70542720$073ec6d8 at rclackey.stic.net>

Not to be pedantic but, several times recently "Hieros" has been used here
where the term was clearly not intended. It's an easy mistake to make; I did
it at least once myself, years ago, what with "Hierogrammate", "Hierarch",
"Hierodule" and such in use in the Urth Cycle.

But the Hieros are a breed apart. They were those bad, bad humans of a
previous universe who created the Hierogrammates. The Hieros did not survive
the death of that universe, but the Hierogrammates did. The Hierogrammates
created the Hierodules. (URTH, 137-38)

-Roy

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