Dragaera

Sethra and connections (spoilery for Agyar / TRiH)

Timothy Nelson TimN at rcn.com
Tue Aug 12 22:19:46 PDT 2003

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.
>