(urth) Like a good Neighbor

[António Pedro Marques]

Yes, nobody's denying that the inhumi's souls become like those of their 
prey. What I'm saying is that there is no evidence that I remember that 
suggests that their *biology*, their *physique*, as opposed to their soul, 
undergoes any such transformation.

Marc Aramini wrote (24-11-2011 02:28):
> There is a chapter titled, "Why are the inhumi like us?" and there is some indication that when the colonists, there food supply, are defeated, the inhumi will defeat themselves (no more sentient children, from what I understood)  need to reread.
>
> --- On Wed, 11/23/11, António Pedro Marques<entonio at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> From: António Pedro Marques<entonio at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
>> To: "The Urth Mailing List"<urth at lists.urth.net>
>> Date: Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 3:26 PM
>> James Wynn wrote (23-11-2011 23:17):
>>> On 11/23/2011 5:09 PM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
>>>> Yeah, the Inhumi could be dream-travelling lianas,
>> but they don't
>>>> exhibit the traits we associate with
>> dream-travellers.
>>>
>>> I don't think *anyone* is postulating this.
>>
>> *I* was, for the sake of saying why I don't think we have
>> evidence of the
>> inhumi taking the biological form of their prey.
>>
>>> Marc believes the vines fed on reptiles and spit out
>> inhumi.
>>>
>>> I proposed that maybe they fed on Neighbors who were
>> dream traveling
>>> trees (dryads) and thus their children have taken the
>> /form/ of "vines".
>>> I don't think they are actual vines. But chopping down
>> a chunk of a
>>> "vine" to make a staff from it has not robbed it of
>> whatever
>>> dream-traveling powers it originally had.
>>
>> I don't think we have evidence of the [children of the]
>> inhumi taking the
>> biological form of their prey, as some of yous have been
>> assuming.
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