Father Inire as Dionysus

David Stockhoff · 24 Oct 2011, 19:31 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:31:23 -0400
Subject: (urth) Father Inire as Dionysus
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On 10/24/2011 2:56 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
> Actually it makes a lot of sense. Because we completely lack any biography
> for Father Inire. This fills in that gap. Is Hethor really so inferior to
> Father Inire?
>
> Inire has been vizier and the power behind the throne of the Commonwealth for
> a thousand years. But Hethor's stories suggest he was a sailor, a cook, the
> bosun, First Mate on Tzadkiel's ship. Then he participated in a mutiny,
> lost his poppet, his paracoita sex doll, and was banished from the Ship.
> (to Urth I think, to become Father Inire).I'm not sure second-in-command to
> Tzadkiel is a lesser post than vizier to the Commonwealth. Perhaps the opposite.

By that very resume, yes, Hethor seems fairly ineffective to me, 
compared with Inire. Hethor is the very type of a sailor who'll take any 
job.

However, you have a point about being First Mate on Tzadkiel's ship, if 
that's the same ship that banished him. That would make him a kind of 
Lucifer.

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