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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">*Some mild BOTLS spoilers and more serious BOTSS spoilers below*</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I kind of had a problem with this as well in that the answer seems to lie outside the BOTLS.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">When I read BOTLS I assumed that when the Whorl reached Blue/Green some initial probes were dispatched to gather</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">information on the system. Some inquisitive Inhuma managed to stow away on the probes and were returned to the </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Whorl.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Now, BOTSS provides a nice Deux Ex Machina mechanism for us - the Neighbours beamed them on board.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">This is a bit unfair to the reader though, the answer doesn't lie in BOTLS at all.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">BOTSS introduces some new issues though, in order to be sentient as Quetzal is, Quetzal's mother would have had</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">to feed on a human. So where are these primal Inhuma? Are these the creatures out by the lake biting innocents?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">My impression from BOTSS (but I have yet to read the last book, damn long distance orders!) was that the Neighbours</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">encouraged humans/Inhuma to live together as they knew that they could potentially find a harmony that the </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Neighbours/Inhuma could not. The Inhuma secret amounts to: If humans did not prey on each other, the inhuma could </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">not prey on humans. If this is the motivation of the Neighbours then perhaps they introduced Inhuma to the Whorl</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">early on in order to kick-start this process. How did Quetzal even end up head of the Church? </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:07:06 -0800 (PST)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">From: J Jankiewicz <jjankie@yahoo.com></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Subject: Re: (urth) The Inhumi Inigma</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">To: The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Message-ID: <933186.25532.qm@web30808.mail.mud.yahoo.com></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Sorry, I am still not buying it; to far-fetched if you will. Anyone else have issues with how the inhumi got?INSIDE the Whorl? Seems to hurt the tale a bit for me; too contrived.</FONT></P>
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