Quetzal has been Prolocutor for 33 years when Silk is enlightened. I assumed he had come aboard the Whorl only a year or two before he became head of the Chapter, and then, as a shape-shifter, Quetzal took the place of a promising human augur who was already in line to become Prolocutor. <div>
<br></div><div>The way Quetzal gets to the Whorl is, as far as I can tell, not explained in the text. </div><div><br></div><div>I have a related question. How do the inhumi travel from Green to Blue? At conjunction, the two planets are 105,000 miles apart (In Green's Jungles, chap. 15). This means most of the distance would be a vacuum, and so the ability of inhumi to fly like bats would be of no help. After all, birds can't fly from the earth to the moon.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But if the inhumi use some sort of mysterious astral projection, then why do they need to wait for conjunction to invade Blue?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br>
</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Stuart Hamm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hammstu@sbcglobal.net">hammstu@sbcglobal.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit">James...I thought someone posted that the Whorl had only been in orbit around B&G for about 40 years, and that Patera Q was so deeply ingrained in the society that he had to have been there much longer than that...<br>
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<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px"><br>From: James Wynn <<a href="mailto:crushtv@gmail.com" target="_blank">crushtv@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: (urth) Inhumi in the Whorl<br>
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <<a href="mailto:urth@lists.urth.net" target="_blank">urth@lists.urth.net</a>><br>Date: Monday, August 16, 2010, 1:20 PM<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div>
On 8/16/2010 3:06 PM, Stuart Hamm wrote:
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correspondence with GW and attempted to get a clue how P
Quetzel and assorted Imhumi (s) ended up on the Whorl, but
of course worded the question incorrectly and got a vague
reference to OBW..we know they got to and from the Whorl
on the landers, but has there been any consensus on how
they got there before the Whorl orbited B&G??<br>
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What makes you think they were there before the Whorl orbited
B&G? I'd really like for them to have been on Urth but I doubt
there is anyway they could. Didn't the Neighbors say they put them
on the Whorl? Would they even need landers to get on the Whorl
assuming it passed close enough to Green?<br>
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