The wounded sun

cilluff1 at optonline.net · 18 Nov 2002, 19:52 · from urth-v0211.mbox · original

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From: "cilluff1 at optonline.net" <cilluff1 at optonline.net>
Subject: RE: (urth) The wounded sun
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 14:52:33 -0500
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Good eye, Roy!  That's exactly the passage that I (and I'm sure Dan'l) wer=
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recollecting!

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From: Roy C=3D2E Lackey rclackey@stic=3D2Enet
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:45:06 -0600
To: urth@urth=3D2Enet
Subject: (urth) The wounded sun


Dan'l quoted and wrote:
>> The wounding of Urth's sun, whether directly by Typhon's
>> actions or as retribution for them, had no galaxy-wide ripple
>> effect=3D2E
>
>This puzzles me=3D2E I have wondered for some time just why many
>of the participants on this list assume that the wounding of
>the Old Sun took place during the reign of Typhon=3D2E In reading
>the Typhon-era passages of UotNS, I received the distinct
>impression that Typhon reigned under a wounded Old Sun=3D2E Can
>anyone give some specifics?

You have to go back to SWORD for the answer (chapter XXV)=3D2E Typhon speak=
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ng:

"It was a period of great confusion as well=3D2E My astronomers had told me=
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that
this sun's activity would decay slowly=3D2E Far too slowly, in fact, for th=
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change to be noticeable in a human lifetime=3D2E They were wrong=3D2E The h=
eat=3D
 of
the world declined by nearly two parts in a thousand over a few years, the=
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n
stabilized=3D2E Crops failed, and there were famines and riots=3D2E I shoul=
d h=3D
ave
left then=3D2E"

-Roy


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