On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, David Silberstein wrote: > >Why "using the Orb"? They held in the Greater Sea somehow, and had no > >Orb to work with. (Well, I suppose they *might* have done, what with > >living in non-linear time and all, but it strikes me as inelegant.) > > > > When I wrote that, I had just re-read the bits in /Issola/ that talked > about the Greater Sea and the Lesser Sea, and the Orb - an artifact of > trellanstone - being used to control amorphia. I thought this was considered more or less miraculous - am I hallucinating? Also I was under the impression that the Gods were a consequence of the Great Sea as much as v.v. - and that the whole thing was accidental enough that no One would have been prepared to bell it.