(urth) Lives of the Great Beasts

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Jonathan Goodwin <joncgoodwin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jonas tells Severian that they were brought to Earth, possibly in the
> zoetic tower, to replace the extinct fauna (I don't have the exact
> quote, but I think that's a reasonable approximation.) I suppose they
> might also have been summoned via catoptromancy, though this seems
> later in the timeline. If the former, then they must have been smaller
> and in a different form. I think it might be reasonable to assume that
> their true nature was not known and it was supposed that, while they
> may grow large, they would not be monstrously intelligent, ambitious
> beasts with the desire to rule the planet and the stars from which
> they came. What would their own world have been like, then? But then
> it occurred to me that creatures such as this would take on the
> characteristics of their rulers as they grew. This would fit Wolfe's
> treatment of alien life forms in other contexts and have some larger
> thematic significance.
>
> Does that seem plausible?


Has anyone given any serious consideration to the idea that they are
"fallen" Yesodi? Hieresiarchs, as it were?

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes