(urth) Appearances of Inire

[David Stockhoff]

So you think the Yesodis are operating a time-travel 
historical-intervention scheme, from a perspective at the end of Urth's 
universe?

Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On 7/1/2010 8:24 AM, John Watkins wrote:
>> Thanks.
>> Obviously, the effect of Tzadkiel's actions is the coming of the New Sun
>> and the drowning of Urth.  Lots and lots of people die in this, maybe
>> for a redemptive higher meaning and maybe not.  Under 1), we can be
>> quite confident that the slaughter was authorized by God, like the Flood
>> or the apocalypse, and therefore moral, at least by the author's lights
>> (the reader's mileage may vary.)  Under 2), the massacring of Urth is no
>> less than genocide.  Under 3), it may be either--a clumsy attempt by
>> incredibly powerful but fallible beings to enact what they understand to
>> be the divine will.
>> I think 3) maybe makes for the best story.  But with 2), there's the
>> possibility of something else going on behind the scenes--maybe over the
>> course of the next seven books--redeeming the act of evil.  That would
>> be a pretty great story.
>
> Tzad cops to #3 although he has the luxury not only of seeing how the 
> machinaitons turn out from his perch in Yesod, but of potentially 
> being able to undo any changes that turn out to suck more rather than 
> less. And arguably, any deaths the Yesodis "cause" have already 
> happened to long-dead Urthlings and they're just rearranging the 
> details, or even saving some from having to suffer in that vale of 
> tears to begin with.
>