Appearances of Inire

James Wynn · 30 Jun 2010, 15:21 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:21:13 -0500
Subject: (urth) Appearances of Inire
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>>>
>>>> Hierodules do not have the power and abilities of a Hierogrammate
>>>
>>> It's prtobably time to point out, if it's news to anyone, that -dule
>>> means 'slave'. The name 'hierodule' may look impressive but doesn't in
>>> fact mean its bearer is all that important.
>>
>>
>> Another word meaning "slave" is "robot". Ossipago is obviously a robot,
>> but I suppose that the "race" created by the Hierogrammates were
>> originally all robots/androids. Personally, I presume they all are 
>> still.
>
> That makes a certain amount of sense - it avoids the problems of 
> depending on unreliable fleshy creatures, which could appeal to angels 
> as beings of the spirit, but Tzadkeil and especially Alpheta seem to 
> be carnal beings as well.
>
One can make robots out of flesh as well as tin, or cover the tin with a 
fleshy facade. The ways such creatures can be different from humans are 
varied, extreme, subtle, and irrelevant. One could write a library of 
novels denoting the difference.

J u+16b9

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