Dragaera

Sethra and connections (spoilery for Agyar / TRiH)

Wed Aug 20 15:00:09 PDT 2003

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:58:56PM -0600, jazzfish at softhome.net wrote:
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> 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... 

I think it's Verra in _Phoenix_ who says "your people came here before the
Jenoine".

> On a similar subject, doubtless someone's brought this up before, but:

Me. :)

> Angels as Jenoine? Just barely possible. (AFB at moment, so can't provide 
> any sort of decent textev, even assuming such exists.) 

Glad someone else had the thought.  Although I wouldn't go so far as to say
that TRiH is actually the beginning of the Dragaeraverse, just that Brust used
similar metaphysics, and thus that the Jenoine are the angels of this verse,
without necessarily being related to the ones in TRiH.

The evidence I really found suspicious was the claim that the Jenoine have a
natural resistance or immunity to the effects of amorphia, when amorphia isn't
supposed to exist anywhere else in the universe.  How can you have a natural
resistance to something outside of nature?  Well, by luck, like bugs and DDT,
but a neater explanation would be that they come from the amorphia.

-xx- Damien X-)