(urth) Grotestad & Grandecitta

[António Pedro Marques]

Someone wrote (08-02-2011 17:50):
> The Neighbours brought inhumi to the Whorl.  We are told in Chapter 11
> of _Return to the Whorl_:
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> Then, "Sometime back like you I go, mysire?"
> "Back to Viron, you mean, Vadsig?"
> "To Viron, yes, mysire. Also to Grotestad. To go to the Long Sun Whorl I
> would like. Always of it you talk, and cook, and my old master and
> mistress. In Grotestad they were born, mysire, but never it I have seen."
> I told her it was possible she would.
> "There the Vanished People went?"
> I nodded.
> "To greet us it was?"
> "You might put it so, though they were sensible enough to find out a
> good deal about us - and infect us with inhumi -"
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Curious... the two whorl city names we do know how to parse both mean 'Big 
City'.