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

[Charles Gillingham]

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
>>
>>
>> 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 >
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>>>
>>>
>>
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