(urth) Short Sun notes: Inhumi and their sources

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Sat Jul 13 13:33:38 PDT 2013


Silk fred them?

No dia 12/07/2013, às 13:58, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu:

> The scene on dorp when Jahlee is mistaken for Chenille also has two other weird things - the presence of auks ghost and it is where Oreb brings a ring that changes to look like Horn's ring.  Silk is also very concerned about the woman Jahlee just fed on, asking if she was dead, a big woman.  Jahlee acts drink because she just fed on someone who turned to drugs in her sorrow.  The ring, auk's ghost, and suddenly being mistaken for chenille and feeding on a big woman, as well as a lander for silk to leave in at the end, tell me auk fixed the lander and chenille wound up bled in an alley by Jahlee in dorp.  Time paradoxes are irrelevant.  Astral travel is time travel.  Silk could have not have freed them in his time line yet. 
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> On Jul 7, 2013, at 2:29 PM, Andrew Mason <andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> We know that each humanoid inhumu/a has a human spirit, which is derived from someone one of their parents fed on before their birth. In the case we know most about, Krait, it’s his mother, but I’m not sure it has to be in every case. Indeed, one might wonder if sometimes one of them might have a double spirit, derived both from their father and their mother. 
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>> I suspect that for each featured inhumu/a we are meant to be able to work out who their source is. 
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>> Krait’s we know is Sinew. 
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>> Quetzal’s, I suspect, is Pike. (I think this has been suggested before.) The only positive evidence for this is that at one point, when they are walking together in the dark, Silk mistakes him for Pike. But it would make sense of some things about his character. When he says ‘Some people love birds so much that they want to keep them caged, and other people love birds so much that they want to set them free’, that is amazingly charitable both to Pas and to Echidna – it has a ‘see the good in everyone’ quality worthy of Silk. That would make sense if Quetzal’s source is Silk’s mentor. 
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>> Jahlee’s, I agree with many people, is Chenille. There’s several pieces of evidence for this; in astral travel she seems to have red hair; Mora, on first meeting her, says ‘She looks like a whore’; and when she is drunk in Dorp the Rajan mistakes her for Chenille. (It might be that Chenille is the woman she has just fed on, but I don’t think so; she knows who Chenille is – ‘that lady on Green’ – and doesn’t recognise her as her victim.)
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>> I do wonder in particular about Jahlee whether she might have a double source, which could explain how she can switch so easily between looking like an old woman and a young woman. (Fava can also look like both, but she has to feed on children to keep looking young, while Jahlee seems able to change at will.) 
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>> Juganu’s, I propose (and I think this is new) is Lemur, or possibly Loris. We are told that Juganu, in astral travel, has a hawk nose and eyes the colour of ice.  Lemur has an aquiline nose, and while his own eyes aren’t described, his brother, Loris, has icy blue eyes.  (These are their chem bodies, of course, but presumably they are modelled on their bio bodies.) In the conversation with Remora at the end, the Rajan says Gyrfalcon was as bad as Juganu, and Remora then (a bit cryptically, as is his wont) compares Gyrfalcon to Lemur. 
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>> This leaves us with Fava. I’m not sure about Fava, though we get enough descriptions of her astral body (which is said to be quite similar to her physical body when in disguise) to suggest that her appearance is significant in some way. It is possible, of course, that her source was in Grandecitta – the shape-changing witch about whom Salica tells a story might have been Fava, or perhaps her mother. Could it be that Salica herself is the source? Fava does claim to remember her youth in Grandecitta – though it’s not clear the memory is her own – and is at one point described as looking like a woman who had been beautiful thirty years before.
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