(urth) Typhon's nature

[Andrew Mason]

Gerry Quinn wrote: >
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> From: Lee Berman
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>> Some think the monarch who planned to destroy all human
>> books/knowledge was Typhon but I dunno.
>
> Nothing Typhon does or says indicates that he would contemplate such an act.
>

The monarch repented, and everything we see of Typhon, both on Urth
and on the Whorl, would have come after that repentance. I think it's
clear that this monarch is Typhon, since in _Urth_ there is a specific
reference to him as having brought the books to to the Citadel.

It remains true, though, that the machine-run society seems to belong
to a much earlier period, the First Empire. Such machines, Malrubius
tells us, still exist, but they are clearly not commonplace.