(urth) Wall of Nessus

[Jeff Wilson]

On 6/10/2010 11:53 PM, Roy C. Lackey wrote:
> Probably so. And I have little doubt that he could have dispatched them at
> least as easily as the U.S. Navy could have dealt with the Squid God. Anyone
> who could build the _Whorl_ and manufacture hundreds of thousands of chem
> soldiers would have little trouble with sea monsters; and the Ascians, if
> they were even around in Typhon's era, would have been less than fleas to
> him.

Do we know for sure that Typhon built the Whorl, or did he appropriate 
it the way he did everything else on Urth when he set up his capital there?

> The Wall of Nessus just doesn't make much sense, no matter who built it, or
> when or why. I think it is one of those things that just have to be accepted
> for the sake of the story, like FTL spaceships, time corridors, ghosts and
> spirit travel.

But those all have plot functions - The Wall is just a Big Dumb Object.

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