--- Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > > > On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Sean Whalen wrote: > > > > > --- Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > > > > There is mention of a Maelstrom which ships > can't pass - perhaps > > > that's the Greater Sea, abutted by the Grey > Rocks and Spindrift Lands. > > > > I don't know. Wouldn't the flowing water enter > the chaos and never come > > out? > > As I've mentioned recently, the physics of amorphia > is beyond me. Does > the wind that blows upon it get, well, vaporized? > The ground it rests > upon dissolved? I've been wondering about amorphia. Ever since Vlad captured some in a bottle (without using e'Kieron powers), we've learned there's a material that can be used to manipulate it, and Aliera's said that Adron's in the Lesser Sea in _Issola_ the nature of the stuff has seemed almost impossible to determine. Back in _Jhereg_ Aliera implied she had entered the Greater Sea and made friends with it. At this point it could just be figurative. But since we now know a mind or soul or some remnant can exist within amorphia there's the possibility that the Greater Sea didn't expand to destroy everything because something in it didn't want to. Maybe after an initial explosion of energy some person or people caught in its creation got some understanding and control of their new environment. They couldn't be the Gods, could they? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html