(urth) What's So Great About Ushas?

[thalassocrat at nym.hush.com]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:55:29 +1000 Dave Tallman 
<davetallman at msn.com> wrote:
>
>Do you know of anything in the text that suggests Abaia is such a 
>size 
>that he couldn't come up the river? The claim of the undines to be 

>his 
>brides and sweethearts in Shadow XV also suggests they are 
>size-compatible. The legendary Abaia was an enormous magical eel 
>that 
>lived in a lake, so that doesn't imply an immobile size either.

Jonas confirms Sev's belief that Abaia et al are as big as 
mountains, not just the size of big ships. (Somewhere in Claw.)

I think they survive. Baldanders tells Valeria that things living 
in the ocean certainly will, and he seems to know stuff. He also 
warns of Erebus following the flood to do [bad stuff].