[AEG] Gideon Chase's identity

David Duffy · 21 Dec 2008, 21:40 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: David.Duffy at qimr.edu.au (David Duffy)
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:40:55 +1000 (EST)
Subject: (urth) [AEG] Gideon Chase's identity
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On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Blake Hyde wrote:

> Sorry if this is a common theory; I wasn't able to find anything like
> this in the archives.  It seems to me that Gideon Chase is likely to
> be a hybrid of a Wolder and perhaps the elder Chase's wife.  Wolfe
> mentions several times that Wolders can hybridize with "lower forms,"
> and it would explain his eyes.  Near the end of the novel, Klauser
> tells Cassie that Wolders look just like humans until you look
> closely.
>
It is only male Wolders who can alter their DNA.

Was just thinking the same thing, but haven't been through the backlog of 
entries yet.  He also seems to be quite familiar with the bat-people, who 
are also possibly Wolder-animal hybrids.

David Duffy.

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