Baldanders and Typhon

Andrew Mason · 26 Sep 2010, 19:57 · from 2010-September.txt.gz

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From: andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com (Andrew Mason)
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:57:22 +0100
Subject: (urth) Baldanders and Typhon
Message-ID: <AANLkTinoknvTi6RfBouJwQD-PHXQL_60N_=SVHwF8bbe at mail.gmail.com>

Regarding the comparison of Baldanders and Typhon: Baldanders strikes
me very much as someone who is trying, by science, to transcend the
human, and so someone who has _made himself_ a monster; it would blunt
the point of this if he were of monstrous origin. I take it,
therefore, that 'Baldanders' is an assumed name, and that if he was
born in the Commonwealth, he originally had a saint's name. (Or
perhaps he was born in Ascia, and his real name is something like
Devoted to the Interests of the Populace.)

We don't know enough about Typhon, I think, to say if his case is
similar, but I don't think we can rule it out. Might there be a
parallel between his adopting a monstrous name, and his wife and
children's adopting monstrous names when they became the gods of the
Whorl? (In which connection, it's worth noticing that 'Cilinia' is a
saint's name, and its bearer should therefore, by the normal rules, be
human.)

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