planetary problems

James Wynn · 28 Dec 2010, 23:56 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:56:44 -0600
Subject: (urth) planetary problems
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> Are the Inhumi really all bad? I'd say they have a certain charm.

They are only as bad as we are. If people did not prey on each other, 
then the ensouled inhumi would die shortly after birth. Only the animal 
inhumi would survive. I believe this is the lesson that the Neighbors 
learned. Humanity has a certain charm as well. But even the charming 
inhumi must prey on us if they are to survive and have anything but 
animalistic children. The Rajan loved Jahlee. But he ended up kicking 
her to death.

> Are the Megatherians pure evil?

No worse than our other tyrants. See An Evil Guest.

> The Gods of the Whorl?

They are in charge of the functions of the ship. As the Rajan declared, 
Typhon did not design the Whorl to be hell. He designed it to be 
pleasant. He was made by the Outsider and thus has a beneficent aspects 
as well.

> Godlings?

Same as Pas.

> Undines and sirens?

Even Baldanders.

> Do they not serve God's purpose and play their
> roles in equal faithfulness to God's Plan as the angels and we humans?

Sure. Jewish Writings say the Assyrians were instruments of God's wrath, 
but that doesn't make them nice. But Wolfe tends to draw all his 
villains as morally ambiguous. The Hierogrammates are not evil despite 
engineering the slaughter of almost all of humanity.

u+16b9

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