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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've just started Wizard & I won't talk about
it very directly, but it did reinforce a notion I've had about the inhumi. In
the future, I think it is quite obvious that humans on Green & Blue will in
the future offer their blood freely to them, somehow or other, and give them the
sentience they would otherwise have to steal. How could it be otherwise? Are we
to imagine a genocide? Wossiname's description of inhumi mating rituals was
almost too heavy-handed in this regard. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Inhumi desperately aspire to human status - they
cross worlds for it; and not so much for themselves, as for their children. I
think we know they that they worship Neighbors as gods (the compressed scene on
the mountain-top, when Silkhorn is physically in Dorp), because they are the
source of sentience, and therefore that they will in future worship humans.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What is this but a kind of Eucharist? Knight &
Wizard just make the theology more explict. Wolfe's stories (at least Latro,
Urth, Knight/Wizard) are all set in cosmologies with a hierarchy of powers,
where humans have their level, neither highest nor lowest, but part of the
chain. those we would regrd a evil, are evil only because we have failed in our
duties as middle-management gods. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I really want to find out what the story has to say
about "the lowest god" in Niflheim. Is this a Satan incapable of redembption, or
does Mythgadyr ultimately have the task of lifting it up? Do these cosmologies
have a place for fundamental Evil, or is apparent evil just the result of poor
execution by those who shoudl have redeemed it? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm pretty sure it's the latter. But does that make
Wolfe more or less orthodox? </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>