Inhumi in the Whorl

Jack Smith · 17 Aug 2010, 00:20 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: jack.smith.1946 at gmail.com (Jack Smith)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:20:05 -0400
Subject: (urth) Inhumi in the Whorl
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Quetzal has been Prolocutor for 33 years when Silk is enlightened.   I
assumed he had come aboard the Whorl only a year or two before he became
head of the Chapter, and then, as a shape-shifter, Quetzal took the place of
a promising human augur who was already in line to become Prolocutor.

The way Quetzal gets to the Whorl is, as far as I can tell, not explained in
the text.

I have a related question.  How do the inhumi travel from Green to Blue?  At
conjunction, the two planets are 105,000 miles apart (In Green's Jungles,
chap. 15).  This means most of the distance would be a vacuum, and so the
ability of inhumi to fly like bats would be of no help.  After all, birds
can't fly from the earth to the moon.

But if the inhumi use some sort of mysterious astral projection, then why do
they need to wait for conjunction to invade Blue?








On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Stuart Hamm <hammstu at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> James...I thought someone posted that the Whorl had only been in orbit
> around B&G for about 40 years, and that Patera Q was so deeply ingrained in
> the society that he had to have been there much longer than that...
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> --- On *Mon, 8/16/10, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com>* wrote:
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> From: James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: (urth) Inhumi in the Whorl
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Monday, August 16, 2010, 1:20 PM
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> On 8/16/2010 3:06 PM, Stuart Hamm wrote:
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>   I actually had a correspondence with GW and attempted to get a clue how
> P Quetzel and assorted Imhumi (s) ended up on the Whorl, but of course
> worded the question incorrectly and got a vague reference to OBW..we know
> they got to and from the Whorl on the landers, but has there been any
> consensus on how they got there before the Whorl orbited B&G??
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> What makes you think they were there before the Whorl orbited B&G? I'd
> really like for them to have been on Urth but I doubt there is anyway they
> could. Didn't the Neighbors say they put them on the Whorl? Would they even
> need landers to get on the Whorl assuming it passed close enough to Green?
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Best wishes,
Jack
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