Multi LImbs

Brian Lovely · 04 May 2009, 22:29 · from 2009-May.txt.gz

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From: brian at studiobl.com (Brian Lovely)
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 18:29:12 -0400
Subject: (urth) Multi LImbs
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"They're hiding in animals"  Maybe this applies to the Neighbors as well.
Not all animals on Blue have extra limbs.  Somewhere in the books, Horn
talks about eight-legged wolves and regular wolves.  ...I think it's wolves.
Anyway, what if the Neighbors decided to hide from the Inhumi in animals,
and the animals they are inside are the multi-limbed ones.  It may be a kind
of defense against the Inhumi in that if the host animal is attacked, the
Inhumi only gets non-sentient animal blood.  

Perhaps the Inhumi mimicked Pas also by hedging their bet with more than one
survival strategy: hiding in animals, hiding in trees, maybe hiding in
undersea domes, and possibly hiding in "the spaces between".  Or maybe the
"spaces between" part is when they come out of their various hiding places.

At the end of "In Green's Jungles" Silkhorn and Hide see a baletiger.
Silkhorn has been doing a lot of communing with the Outsider.  Hide asks
about the baletiger something like "It that...?" and Silkhorn replies "I
think so".  ...or something very much like that.  There are at least two
interpretations of what Hide was thinking.  One that the baletiger was a
messenger of the Outsider, or at least currently under the direct influence
of the Outsider.  Another is that the baletiger was a Neighbor host.

During the trial in Dorp, a Neighbor says that Horn has stayed in his house.
Assuming you accept the theory that at some point Horn has been in Babbie,
that could be when this occurred.  Babbie has extra limbs, marking him
(according to this theory ) as a Neighbor host.  Also, Horn first sees
Babbie jumping from Maytera Marble's island, he has trouble determining how
many creatures he is seeing.  This confusion of number is a very
Neighbor-like trait.

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FWIW, my impression of the message of multi-limbs on Blue's creatures is the
opposite
that some others get. Having four limbs is not a universal ideal or baseline
(as our arthropod
cousins show); it is just an evolutionary by-product of the basic earth
vertebrate pattern.

So rather than seeing multi-limbs as an alteration, I see them as a way that
Wolfe marks
certain creatures on Blue as natives; others are are alien invaders. This
could be a
clear message that Blue is not Earth or Urth or Ushas.

Also, I suppose it has been mentioned before but I just re-noticed Wolfe's
description of 
Inhumi as not being good with tools.  Add this to their parasitic and
mimicking nature and
I think the connection to Shadow Children becomes quite powerful. This might
make Fifth Head
of Cerberus a very fruitful place for understanding Inhumi origins and how
they think and feel
as they assume a new identity. 

-bsharp
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