giant herb islands

Jordon Flato · 19 May 2009, 15:56 · from 2009-May.txt.gz

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From: jordonflato at gmail.com (Jordon Flato)
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 08:56:00 -0700
Subject: (urth) giant herb islands
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Aren't you confusing two different Islands?  The one you are talking about
is the one with the lake which contains the monster that attacks Babbie and
He.  He doesn't even have Seawrack at that point.  The Pit Island I remember
as more of a standard Island.

Is that incorrect?

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> a few weeks ago I made the claim the island of the pit on blue was composed
> of trees.  I am always travelling and so did not have access to my books
> until now.  On page 161 of oBW, chapter 6, the storm shakes up the islands
> and reveals to Horn that they are actually composed of "giant herbs" that
> are not trees or ferns but have the nature of them, and that Babbie and he
> walked on the branches and leaves believing them to be ground.
>
> Just a bit more hinting that the pit Horn falls in might be the maw of one
> such ocean growing herb.
>
>
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