Inhumi (RTTWspoilers)

James Jordan · 17 Feb 2001, 13:15 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: James Jordan <jbjordan at gnt.net>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Inhumi (RTTWspoilers)
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:15:30
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This theory makes a great deal of sense to me. FWIW. So does your notion=20
that Pig is a godling and that Pig may have "killed" Silk. It does seem=20
that Pig once had eyes, and lost them. If your Tartaros theory is correct,=20
I'd say Tartaros moved into him after the loss of those eyes, as into a fit=20
host.
         Another point. Horn says he learned that the Neighbors have a=20
weird sense of humor. I'd say that the great manifestation of that is their=20
putting Horn into Silk's body.

Nutria

At 01:16 PM 2/14/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>Fernando Gouvea having written:
>
><About the secret of the inhumi: can we trust the text here? Since Silk/Ho=
rn
>is writing a "public" document, might he have put down a bowdlerized
>version of the secret so as to make the point that it was revealed to
>Nettle without thereby revealing it to us?>
>
>I'm sort of with Fernando here. Because I still don't believe the inhumi f=
ly
>between planets during conjunctions, and that it's this well-kept secret
>that's somehow involved with neutralizing or eradicating the inhumi on Blu=
e.
>
>Yes, we have Jahlee talking about testing her youthful wings and endurance
>for the Crossing. But in the same passage, when Horn asks her, "Before you
>came the first time?" author Wolfe very cryptically has Horn note, "She did
>not answer."  Jahlee would also have us believe that those inhumi lacking
>endurance burn up when they hit Blue's atmosphere. "That little scratch of
>fire, and you're gone forever." Right. And thunder is Pas breaking wind.
>(Are we also to believe that Blue's skies are marred by these "little
>scratches of fire" only during times of conjunction?)
>
>Jahlee further notes that she trained "for years, and there were days when=
 I
>couldn't even get up high above the clouds. There are strong winds at this
>level, and the air is thin." In space, however, there is no air, thin or
>otherwise--so why should that make a difference?
>
>How also do we explain the death of Fava, who freezes to death in the snow,
>and Jahlee who almost does so? If the equitorial, reptile-like inhumi can
>withstand the froric depths of space, why can't they tolerate the colder
>climes of "frigid, hostile Blue," as Jahlee calls it?
>
>Answer: because they don't fly between worlds, any more than they flew to
>the Whorl. In the latter case we learn that the Neighbors sent them for
>purposes of reconnaissance. It seems likely that whatever technology was
>involved there--and if the inhumi have supped on the Neighbors, one would
>think they would have access to their technosecrets--is still being used by
>the inhumi of Horn's time, if not from the very beginning.
>
>Robert Borski
>
>
>
>
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