(urth) [AEG] Gideon Chase's identity

[Blake Hyde]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 4:40 PM, David Duffy <David.Duffy at qimr.edu.au> wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Blake Hyde wrote:
>
>> Sorry if this is a common theory; I wasn't able to find anything like
>> this in the archives.  It seems to me that Gideon Chase is likely to
>> be a hybrid of a Wolder and perhaps the elder Chase's wife.  Wolfe
>> mentions several times that Wolders can hybridize with "lower forms,"
>> and it would explain his eyes.  Near the end of the novel, Klauser
>> tells Cassie that Wolders look just like humans until you look
>> closely.
>>
> It is only male Wolders who can alter their DNA.
>

Yes, this is why I think Chase's "father" was being cuckolded.  This
would also explain why Klauser tells Cassie that the Wolders sometimes
try to seduce human women.

> Was just thinking the same thing, but haven't been through the backlog of
> entries yet.  He also seems to be quite familiar with the bat-people, who
> are also possibly Wolder-animal hybrids.

I think the bat-people are something else entirely, one of the shyer
races who live "like mice in [the Storm King's] barn."