Rajan and Food

David Stockhoff · 29 Apr 2009, 01:37 · from 2009-April.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:37:32 -0400
Subject: (urth) Rajan and Food
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I have no idea where it was, but I recall a fairly clear hint dropped that the inhumi evolved from parasitic vines. There is certainly no evidence that they are reptilian---merely reptile-like.

And I agree that the Neighbors are somehow tree-related. Wolfe never wastes a clue, so there must be something to that.

I don't see any problem with transformations from one form to another, although I wouldn't propose that the inhumi can change into vines and back any more than humans can change into monkeys and back. But they do have the capacity to winter underground just like plants.

The inhumi plainly are highly changeable, and do not need to conform to 20th-century notions of what a species is---especially since those notions are wrong. They change when they feed on sentient life; they change with the availability of food.

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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:04:11 -0500
From: "James Wynn" <crushtv at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Rajan and Food
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> >He's a tree, he's a tree! Neighbors are trees,
> >Inhumi are parasitic vines.  .or something.
> >Not sure what the Neighbor-version of Inhumi
> >are-maybe the vine with a face that is cut for Incanto's staff.
>   

Brian, let's posit that the Neighbors are dryads--that their steady physical 
form is one of the "sleepy trees" in the forests of Blue. How do the inhumi 
make the jump to become vines? Or how do they transform back to 
winged/clawed vampiric reptiles? That is the fundamental problem with any 
"tree/vine theory" regarding the Neighbors and inhumi.

J. 

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