Urth Net
What's in a name?
↰ answers Kevin J. Maroney
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From: "Kevin J. Maroney" <kmaroney at crossover.com>
(Remember that most/all of the animal species of Urth except humans were driven extinct at some point in the past, and the animals present in the Book are alien replacements which approximate the original species. Destriers aren't horses, they're alien horse-like beings. This is an inversion of the standard sf cliche where an alien world is populated by exotic creatures which are actually just cows and bunnies with different names; here the Earth is populated by alien species which are like cows and bunnies.)
By the first rule of Wolfean naming ("everything is exactly what it says it is") is it fair then to assume that Triskele is indeed a dog? Possibly a "modified" dog, but a dog no less? The Wolfean Naming Rule clearly doesn't always work, since the Salamander is no newt (though it does resemble a certain Newt after a fashion, it flames and flames until its flames burn its bridges and it conveniently disappears :-)
Dan P. aka
Lexicographer Shellac