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<pre wrap="">Andrew Mason -
Typhon: first, can someone point me to the evidence that he was not
born/raised on Urth? I'm not sure what the source for this is.
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For me, it is based on the story of "Spring Wind". I was rather
surprised to discover that it was at all controversial that "Spring
Wind" referred to Typhon. But I suppose there is little about these
stories that is not controversial. If it seems reasonable to you
that Spring Wind = Typhon, then the obvious implication is that he
is extra-terrestrial :<br>
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Sword of the Lictor, Chapter 19<br>
"<b>On a mountain top beyond the shores of Urth</b> there once lived
a lovely woman<br>
named Early Summer. She was the queen of that land, but her king was
a strong,<br>
unforgiving man, and because she was jealous of him he was jealous
of her in<br>
turn, and killed any man he believed to be her lover.<br>
One day Early Summer was walking in her garden when she saw a most
beautiful<br>
blossom of a kind wholly new to her. It was redder than any rose and
more<br>
sweetly perfumed, but its strong stalk was thornless and smooth as
ivory. She<br>
plucked it and carried it to a secluded spot, and as she reclined
there<br>
contemplating it, it grew to seem to her no blossom at all but such
a lover as<br>
she had longed for, powerful and yet as tender as a kiss. Certain of
the juices<br>
of the plant entered her and she conceived. She told the king,
however, that the<br>
child was his, and since she was well guarded, he believed her.<br>
It was a boy, and by his mother's wish he was called <b>Spring Wind</b>.
[snip]<br>
Now it happened that the chances of war often brought Spring Wind to
Urth, and<br>
there he came to know of two brothers who were kings.<br>
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