(urth) What's So Great About Ushas?

[Dave Tallman]

>
> I agree that the picture painted for Sev in NEW SUN isn't the same picture
> painted in URTH. Apparently almost everyone on Urth seemed to believe that
> when the New Sun came, all Urth's troubles would be over; the ice would
> retreat, the growing season be extended and who-knows-what-all. Life on Urth
> would be rosy again, as when mankind first went out to seize dominion over
> the galaxy, or at least as good as things were, in material terms, when
> Typhon ruled.
>   

The teachings of the Conciliator didn't paint a rosy picture at all:

Declan wished to know how Urth would fare when the New Sun came; and I, 
understanding little more than he did himself, drew upon Dr. Talos's 
play, never thinking that in a time yet to come Dr. Talos's play would 
be drawn from my words.

Earlier:
I thought of Dr. Talos's play, in which the ground shakes and Jahi says: 
"The end of Urth, you fool. Go ahead and spear her. It's the end for you 
anyway."

If the majority of his followers forgot that and turned it into a rosy 
promise of utopia that wasn't the Conciliator's fault.