(urth) b sharps's Inire theory

[Roy C. Lackey]

Jeff Wilson wrote:
>Okay, so T's race can take different shapes, and split off independent
>parts, stipulated. But can T's race take on a multitude of different
>faces?

T went from hairy-faced Zak to both male and female faces that aren't
described but don't look like Zak's. This from the start of the Trial:

"I knew then that I had seen Tzadkiel before I helped
Sidero and the rest catch him as Zak, and that the male
form I saw was no more true (though no less) than the
winged woman whose glance had stunned me then, and
that neither was more true, or less, than the animal shape
that had saved me when Purn had tried to kill me outside his
cage." (XXI, 151)

> And where is it writ that Inire is a member of T's race?

Nowhere.

>Suppose I am Inire, and too busy doing transcendent things to date. How
>does it help me quench my desire for a young lady's company to bud off a
>boatman who departs, perhaps to reunite in 50 or so yeasr, perhaps not,
>especially when I am already in close cahoots with the owner of a
>youth-oriented clone bordello?  Surely he could keep a really young one
>on hand, perhaps in return for a new section of the Botanical Gardens
>for he and his bees to enjoy?

To be clear: I still see no real reason the Boatman should be part of the
Inire cadre, and I think the theory would be the better for taking that
famous Razor to him -- it would eliminate needless complications. But
Rudesind had had a wife and kids, and girls seemed to have liked Fechin, or
he them. Anyway, I suppose it best to think of Inire as just another
split-off version of a Hierogrammate.

-Roy