Horns abilities

Daniel Petersen · 26 Oct 2011, 16:13 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com (Daniel Petersen)
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:13:22 +0100
Subject: (urth) Horns abilities
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*They are disembodied spirits (ghosts, if you will) with bodies fashioned
from "dream-stuff". Thus they can die in dream-travel and their bodies
remain. Their bodies that they left, are not killed in that case, but are
left senseless and souless. If your sleeping body dies in dream-travel,

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"Do you recall how, when you were hardly more than a boy, I taught you the
art by which we flesh sons from dream stuff?"
[...]
"For though he did not know why, being of the stuff of dreams he was
drawn to her; and she, whose eyes held starlight, to him."
Chapter 17, Claw of the Concilliator*



Great connections with the quotes from Claw!  It still looks slightly more
complicated and mysterious than just this though.  For example, Horn can
form a sword from dream stuff apparently and then actually cut physical
things on Green with it.  It's one thing for a ghost to throw plates that
break.  But it's another for the ghost to form a dream-plate or spirit-plate
and the plate manages to leave a shiner on the eye of the person hit by it.
(Even though eventually no other evidence of the plate's existence will
remain.)

-DOJP


On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:57 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

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>> > On Oct 26, 2011, at 6:40 AM, larry miller <biglar1984 at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > > Can anyone tell me why Horn is able to get inside and
>> > change the
>> > > stories being told in In Greens Jungles?
>> > > _______________________________________________
>>
>> > From: James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com>
>> > Subject: Re: (urth) Horns abilities
>> > To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
>> > Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 6:23 AM
>> > Dream travel is time travel. Remember
>> > Pike's ghost?
>>
>> Marc Aramini wrote:
>> My position, too.  For sure.  and I rather like the little doll in the
>> dreams as mucor teaming up with fava spirit (or whoever is dead). Dream
>> travel is definitely time travel.
>>
>
>  On 10/26/2011 10:04 AM, Daniel Petersen wrote:
>
> What's the deal with it being semi-physical?  Is it 'out of body' even
> though you can physically influence stuff in the place you 'go' to?  It's
> one of the weirdest things I've ever seen (because it's not as simple as
> time travel on one hand or visions on the other, etc.).  And Wolfe's
> introduction and development of it narratively (especially in In Green's
> Jungles) is one of the most jaw-dropping, mind-bending experiences I've had
> in reading.
> -DOJP
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