Pas' personality — Urth Net

Derek Bell02 Oct 1998, 18:16original as archived

Pas' personality

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In message <199810020528.WAA12742 at lists1.best.com>, marc at continuumsi.com writes :

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On an unrelated not, it seems clear that Pas is the avatar of Typhon/Piaton (unless there are other two-headed all-powerful monarchs floating around capable of building generation ships). But Pas seems to be a mostly benevolent figure, at least compared to Echidna, Scylla, etc... Whereas, Typhon was clearly a bastard... Guess you'd have to chalk that one up to programmer's error, heh.

Maybe he was upgraded: Pas 2.0 - even more worshipper-friendly!! (Typhon was a buggy alpha release.) ;-) Derek

Michael Straight07 Oct 1998, 09:08original as archived

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I guess this should go in the Whorl list, but I'll keep it here where people have been discussing it. Spoilers for the Long Sun books follow.

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Marc wrote: On an unrelated not, it seems clear that Pas is the avatar of Typhon/Piaton (unless there are other two-headed all-powerful monarchs floating around capable of building generation ships). But Pas seems to be a mostly benevolent figure, at least compared to Echidna, Scylla, etc... Whereas, Typhon was clearly a bastard... Guess you'd have to chalk that one up to programmer's error, heh.

You have to remember that Pas was killed (erased from Mainframe). The "Pas" we see is a version cobbled together from the splinters of himself that Pas was able to hide here and there. It's not clear how much of the original Pas gets pulled together. Remember also the vision that Kypris(?) shows Silk of Pas with Silk's face replacing one of Pas's heads. The interesting question is, Which head? If Silk replaces the slave's head, that would imply that Kypris wants Silk to be the host body for Pas's personality in the way that Chenille served for Scylla. But if Silk is replacing Typhon's original head, that might imply that the "Pas" program is crippled and that Silk's personality might be used to replace what is missing, possibly dominating Typhon's personality. I like to think that perhaps Kypris already downloaded Silk's personality when she showed him that vision and that "Pas" is now an amalgamation of Silk and Typhon. -Rostrum