(urth) Fwd: Re: Urth is a colonised planet
Eric Bourland
eb at hwaet.com
Fri Sep 29 10:49:31 PDT 2017
Huh. You know, I never thought of that. =) Thank you, Marc.
Say, when is the second volume of your Light and Shadow book coming out
from Castalia?
Eric
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Eric Bourland
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On 9/29/2017 1:26 PM, Ab de Vos wrote:
>
> Putting my hands on my mouth again.
>
>
> Op 29-9-2017 om 19:24 schreef Marc Aramini:
>> Yes, well known the planets were named for Norns, urth, skald, verthandi.
>>
>> On Friday, September 29, 2017, Ab de Vos <foxyab at casema.nl
>> <mailto:foxyab at casema.nl>> wrote:
>>
>> They may be colonists in the sense of random settlers in another
>> country, like ex-pats. But not in the sense of a imperialistic
>> colonization scheme such as in Cerberus. There is I believe no
>> indication that the autarch is subjected to the kakogens which
>> would have pointed to a foreign power ruling. A foreign power
>> ruling indigenous elites is a sure sign of colonization, like the
>> Dutch East Indies.
>>
>> By the way. Yesterday I read in a piece about Lovecraft that Urth
>> means 'fate' and also 'turn' or 'bend' in Old Norse. The word
>> 'weird' is derived from it. I was always thinking 'urth' was a
>> simple bastardization of earth. Anybody knew this? It was a
>> surprise to me. Fate and the turning of deep time.
>>
>>
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>> -------- Doorgestuurd bericht --------
>> Onderwerp: Re: (urth) Urth is a colonised planet
>> Datum: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:15:32 -0500
>> Van: Jeffery Wilson clueland.com <http://clueland.com>
>> <jwilson at clueland.com>
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jwilson at clueland.com');>
>> Aan: Ab de Vos <foxyab at casema.nl>
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','foxyab at casema.nl');>
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>>
>> On 9/27/2017 4:12 PM, Ab de Vos wrote:
>> > Probably Urth is a galactic backwater visited by aliens, some of them
>> > like the sea monster living on Urth. No colonization scheme I think.
>>
>> Rather it strikes me that Abaia's undines are indeed colonists, or among
>> them. It's not clear if they are beings who have swum here across space,
>> or Urthly humans who were given such power with their collossal size.
>>
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>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jwilson at clueland.com');> >
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