(urth) Newbie - a theory and some questions.

[mournings glory]

>Erebus and Abaia are both huge alien(?) beings -- the sort of thing that
>Baldanders may become in time - who play chess with humans as
>pieces. Erebus lives at the South Pole, near the mountain of the same
>name; Abaia lives under the sea. There is a third, if you can catch the
>name.

There is actually a fourth: Arioch (IV, chap 1). And Blaithmaic's book in 
the library of the Citadel, _Lives of the Seventeen Megatherians_, suggests 
there may be as many as 13 more--all (or mostly?) unnamed.

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