(urth) Typhon's nature

[Gerry Quinn]

From: larry miller

> In dr. Talos play Scylla is mentioned alongside Abaia and Erebus.
> Knowing that Scylla is part of Typhons family it doesn't seem too
> farfetched to assume Typhon was originally one of the Megatherians.

Scylla (the sea monster) and Cilinia (Typhon's daughter whose digitised 
personality was later named Scylla) are different entities.

> Maybe his bean grown body was humanoid and he transferred into it from
> his monster form.  Then something prevented him from transferring into
> the Mandragora in Citadel (more than likely a Proto-Chem) and his only
> alternative was to graft his humanoid head onto Piatons body.  We know
> that Typhon as Pas did not get on well with Scylla and the others so
> it makes sense that he would want to enslave them when he regains
> control of the Commonwealth.  Typhon more than likely feels as though
> he has surpassed his waterbound brethren and does not count himself
> among them.

The beans were or symbolised the embryos of the sea monsters.  Typhon may 
well have come from off-Urth, but IMO there's nothing to suggest he was 
visibly distinct from the average human.  He got old or ill and needed a 
full-body transplant, that's all.

- Gerry Quinn