(urth) Short Sun blog

[Lee Berman]

>Roy C. Lackey: Typhon was raw ego. Mt. Typhon's sole purpose was to flaunt his face and
>gratify his ego. He did not deprecate his memory or that of his family among
>the colonists, he just changed the family names to reflect the new reality
>of their digitized existence as gods in Mainframe. On Urth they had been
>flesh and blood, and the first walking Cargo on the ship had known and
>remembered that, until their memories were tampered with. To go from royalty
>to deity is hardly a step down in status.
 
I lean toward Roy's explanation of Typhon's "self-aggrandizement". I think his primary 
audience was the people of the Whorl.