(urth) Appearances of Inire

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Typhon was well motivated.

I am sure that if you told him he was evil he would agree (megalomaniacal
but not exactly delusional, him), and point out that he did a lot of good
things, which he would proceed to list.

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>
> From: "John Watkins" <john.watkins04 at gmail.com>
>> Certainly Pas is evil. Certainly many of his servants (Silk) are good.
> And of those servants who aren't very good, they tend to be improved
> by greater service (Incus). Wolfe seems to believe and in fact very
> nearly states in canon that good service to even a false god is
> sanctifying.
>
> I'm not sure the concept 'Pas is evil' makes much real sense (we can posit
> that Typhon was evil, but Typhon is not exactly Pas).
>
> Pas is the creator of the Whorl, which has much good in it, even if, as
> Silk
> animadverts towards the end of _TBotLS_ it also has much evil.  And he
> seems
> to be doing his best for it, in his way.
>
> Evil is generally defined as being opposite to good, not as mere
> imperfection.  The imperfect has evil within it, but it cannot reasonably
> be
> cosidered synonymous with evil.
>
> - Gerry Quinn
>
>
>
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