Urth-Earth links

David Stockhoff · 19 Oct 2011, 01:11 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:11:14 -0400
Subject: (urth) Urth-Earth links
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On 10/18/2011 5:38 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>>> The pandours also seem to be undines, and their armored state heavily
>>> suggests they are
>>> either few in number or individually valuable or both, rather than
>>> pinched off a
>>> mountain-sized mass at need.
>> Well, I think we agree that the pandours of Erebus are akin to the undines
>> of Abaia,
>> pinched off or not. But since we don't see them in action, the armor could
>> be a mostly a
>> literary device to show they are warriors (as their pale skin is to show
>> they are from
>> the south/antarctic).
> How do we know they are Erebus'? Don't his overtly attested forces come
> over the ice onto the land like light infantry? The pandours are heavy
> marine forces.
>
> I don't see that skin color supports their Ereban origin. Fuegians would
> have to sit at the back of an Alabaman bus, there's no Antarctic natives
> to judge by, and arctic indigines like Sammi and Inuits are also darker
> than the average caucasian. Maybe if they are white like cavefish from
> living in Ereban darkness under the ice or even in some of his lava tubes.
That was always my thought. Possibly the long winters at the Pole would 
be the cause. OTOH, such details don't need to correspond exactly to our 
world.
> Their house and neighborhood is also covered with green growth, like the
> green of the undines' hair, the Green Man's pond scum, and the giant
> sloth's coat at the Well near the fountain, though that is a thematic link
> rather than a continuitous one. Still, a pretty soggy outfit in moist,
> sultry company.
Aha ....

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