I had assumed that, originally, only the Serioli were present. Then, independant human colonists arrived via some means, and THEN the Jenoine came. I can't confirm this assumption either though. :) ----- Original Message ----- From: Kenneth Gorelick <pulmon at comcast.net> To: <jazzfish at softhome.net> Cc: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 7:50 PM Subject: Re: Sethra and connections (spoilery for Agyar / TRiH) > When you say that it is possible that the Jenoine peopled Dragaera with > humans, I recall that the original inhabitants were the Serioli, that > humans came later, and after the humans arrived, the Jenoine came along > and mixed their genes in with various animals to create Humans > (Dragaerans). While there is no direct textev that the Jenoine came > ::long:: after humans (Easterners) I had made that assumption... > > Ken > On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 06:58 PM, jazzfish at softhome.net wrote: > > > S > > P > > O > > I > > L > > E > > R > > S > > P > > A > > C > > E > > Jon Carey writes: > >> come to think of it, what *is* the nature of Sethra's vampirism? > > > > Possibly very similar to Jack Agyar's. There's a decent amount of > > circumstantial evidence that the Jenoine peopled Dragaera with > > transplanted humans ('small invisible lights' et al), so it's (barely) > > possible that you can draw connections between /all/ of Steve's > > works... > > On a similar subject, doubtless someone's brought this up before, but: > > 1. There are remarkable similarities between the descriptions of > > cacoastrum and amorphia, and 'using one's own illiaster' smacks of > > pre-Empire sorcery. > > 2. If you're outside the known universe you've probably got a wildly > > different perspective on 'space'... > > Angels as Jenoine? Just barely possible. (AFB at moment, so can't > > provide any sort of decent textev, even assuming such exists.) > > ---- > > John W "Tucker" Taylor > > How many bitter men does it take to change a light bulb? We don't > > care, and if you try we'll just throw the lamp against the wall again. >