(urth) Fwd: Re: Urth is a colonised planet

[Charles Gillingham]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dis_(Divine_Comedy)

I always get that mixed up with the city in Paradise Lost.

On Sep 29, 2017 7:09 PM, "Eric Bourland" <eb at hwaet.com> wrote:

> Ruled by Dispater, if the Old Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual can be
> credited.
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> From: Charles Gillingham <charlesgillingham at gmail.com>
> Sent: ‎9/‎29/‎2017 8:32 PM
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> Dis is named after a city in hell. I know this from playing Doom in the
> 90's.
>
>
> On Sep 29, 2017 12:27 PM, "Marc Aramini" <marcaramini at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Second volume submitted but hasn't gone through editing ... anyone's
>> guess. When I submit the final part ( gonna be 3 - got too long) then it
>> might be reapportioned for equally sized hardbacks, which I think is
>> probably wise, or no one will buy volume 3. There is almost no editing to
>> do compared to last time, so I hope Matthew can get through it soon.
>>
>> I think volume two is far superior to the first.
>>
>> On Friday, September 29, 2017, Eric Bourland <eb at hwaet.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> --
>>> Eric Bourlandeb at hwaet.comhttps://www.hwaet.com
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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> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -------- Doorgestuurd bericht --------
>>>> Onderwerp: Re: (urth) Urth is a colonised planet
>>>> Datum: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:15:32 -0500
>>>> Van: Jeffery Wilson clueland.com <jwilson at clueland.com>
>>>> Aan: Ab de Vos <foxyab at casema.nl>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jeffery Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
>>>> RIP - A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab< http://clueland.com/demo/interact/ > <http://clueland.com/demo/interact/>
>>>>
>>>>
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