(urth) Undine's nature

[Gerry Quinn]

From: Lee Berman 

> A question which seem always danced around be never addressed is 
> regarding who is Typhon's daughter really, Scylla or Cilinia? 

Typhon was human, so I pick the human one.  

> Though
> the process isn't clear to me, I do have a strong sense that his daughter
> has a dual essence. Perhaps there was cloning involved but I think one 
> iteration of her died as a girl, but another entered the sea and kept 
> growing into the monster which became Great Scylla (and perhaps Abaia). 

I don’t such a theory is tenable, because Cilinia was scanned and uploaded to the Whorl at a young age.  Since she clearly already identified with or thought herself akin in some ways to the monster Scylla, it seems most probable that Scylla was already fully developed at that time.

I suppose it is possible that Cilinia’s emulated personality in Mainframe somehow stayed in communication with Scylla throughout the centuries of travel.  But for Scylla to somehow develop from Cilinia, apart from being a flagrant contradiction of biology, also contradicts the beans story which suggests that the sea monsters are of extra-terrestrial origin (as does the existence of the Mother).

- Gerry Quinn 


 
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