What's So Great About Ushas?

thalassocrat at nym.hush.com · 18 Jun 2008, 13:36 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: thalassocrat at nym.hush.com (thalassocrat at nym.hush.com)
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:36:01 +1000
Subject: (urth) What's So Great About Ushas?
Message-ID: <20080618133602.52A12D032F at mailserver10.hushmail.com>

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:55:29 +1000 Dave Tallman 
<davetallman at msn.com> wrote:
>
>Do you know of anything in the text that suggests Abaia is such a 
>size 
>that he couldn't come up the river? The claim of the undines to be 

>his 
>brides and sweethearts in Shadow XV also suggests they are 
>size-compatible. The legendary Abaia was an enormous magical eel 
>that 
>lived in a lake, so that doesn't imply an immobile size either.

Jonas confirms Sev's belief that Abaia et al are as big as 
mountains, not just the size of big ships. (Somewhere in Claw.)

I think they survive. Baldanders tells Valeria that things living 
in the ocean certainly will, and he seems to know stuff. He also 
warns of Erebus following the flood to do [bad stuff].

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