(urth) Inhumi in the Whorl

[Lee Berman]

>David Stockhoff- Is there any particular reason why a megatherian can't be human?
>it's not how I see them, but the term is not species-specific.
 
Ah, well, who knows. But the not-metaphoric meaning of "beast" is:
 
>1. a : a four-footed mammal as distinguished from a human being, a lower vertebrate, 
>and an invertebrate b : a lower animal as distinguished from a human being c : an animal 
>as distinguished from a plant d : an animal under human control
 
So in any of the usual meanings, a beast isn't going to be a human or plant.
 
Many seem to think of Baldanders as a proto-megatherian.  We don't know Baldanders' true origin. 
Just a small guy who appeared on the edge of Lake Diuturna a couple lifetimes ago. Human?
Or alien in human form? If alien, is he like a black bean who does the first part of his growth
into megatherian on land?
 
As mentioned I think only the Piaton part of Typhon is human. The other part, like the mandragora,
has an element of immortality to it. Like the immortal, Greek mythological Typhon, the BotNS 
Typhon seems to meet his end eternally confined beneath a mountain. Maybe while down there he manages 
to wrench out one last nursing of his erection from the battered, dying remains of Piaton's body.