Valeria

b sharp · 19 Jul 2008, 03:13 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: bsharporflat at hotmail.com (b sharp)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:13:15 -0400
Subject: (urth) Valeria
Message-ID: <BAY103-W118EFC1A8950DD95F91840D7880 at phx.gbl>

Dave Tallman, again kudos for your research! If the source of the sundial 
inscriptions had been tracked down before I was unaware of it. Still, unlike
the slam dunk of your three Contessa maids all being beheaded, I don't find
the connection between the inscriptions compelling. Perhaps there is no 
individual significance to them but only a collective significance that Valeria 
is connected to the distant past of Urth (or distant future of Earth?).  I'll note
that the animal statues in the Atrium of Time have the names of South 
American fossil creatures (barylamdas, arctothers, glyptodons and smilodons).

Connecting Valeria to Typhon might prove fruitful.  I am reminded that another 
denizen of the Citadel, the Mandragora, is probably related to Typhon (I think 
only these two characters show evidence of telepathy in BotNS).

-bsharp
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