Short Sun notes: Remora

Andrew Mason · 08 Oct 2013, 22:04 · from 2013-October.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com (Andrew Mason)
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 23:04:38 +0100
Subject: (urth) Short Sun notes: Remora
Message-ID: <CAM3O41LVDxptCKmGr_kCJzyhan7LO9fozOZFXVyf5gmvHaxxdg at mail.gmail.com>

Marc Aramini wrote:

>
> The tree of quetzal is not a neighbor but probably a vanished god, as are
> the cannibal trees on green and the giant "herbs" that make up the islands
> on blue.
>

OK, that makes more sense. I'm sure some people have claimed that trees are
Neighbours, but I have never found it convincing. trees as Vanished Gods is
much more plausible - at least one tree seems to be a god (the one the
Rajan meets at the end of OBW), so it's quite believable that others are as
well. (I don't think every god is a tree, though - the Mother doesn't seem
to be. I'm also doubtful that all the islands are made up of herbs - Horn
finds some which are, but they then break up in a storm.)

 Lee Berman wrote:

> 1. In their experience with humans, wouldn't the Neighbors more likely to
> find Horn as
> a typical representation of the species than Silk? And while Silk was
> surely kind and
> gentle, he clearly had the capacity for violence and destruction when he
> felt the need.
>

My understanding is that the Neighbours' judgement of humans is based
primarily on their experience of humanoid inhumi - so on Quetzal, among
others. I think Quetzal is by and large a noble character, despite his need
to drink blood; even if at the end he is sacrificing the humans (and it's
not clear to me he is doing exactly that) he is sacrificing them for the
benefit of his people, not for a purely selfish end.

Antonio Pedro Marquez wrote:

> Note: It's inhumu (m), inhuma (f), inhumi (p), maybe ?inhumae (fp)
>

According to the Rajan at the end of RTTW:

'I have been on friendly terms with three, however. No, four... With two
inhumus, Your Cognizance, and two inhumas.' 'Inhumi' is the generic plural when
gender is not specified. I'm fairly sure that 'an inhumi' occurs in at
least one place as well.

>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/attachments/20131008/ffca164f/attachment.htm>

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net