<div>I think that Mucor is a clue to the nature of Typhon. Mucor has mental powers that arise genetically and she </div><div>was born from an embryo purchased by Blood. That embryo must derive from the time of Typhon. We don't know</div>
<div>whether Mucor was created through selective breeding or genetic manipulation or both. I don't think it matters though,</div><div>we have evidence that mental powers are associated with embryos bred for the purposes. Is this what Typhon means </div>
<div>when he says he was not born as such? He may have been raised in vitro.</div><div> </div><div>Which only raises more questions about Typhon's origins to me. Was he perhaps a slave himself, the product of a genetic </div>
<div>breeding program? I could go on but I know I am in the realm of sheer conjecture at this point.</div><div><div> </div><div>___________________________________________________________________________________</div></div>
<div>___________________________________________________________________________________</div><div>From: David Stockhoff <<a href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net">dstockhoff@verizon.net</a>><br>To: The Urth Mailing List <<a href="mailto:urth@lists.urth.net">urth@lists.urth.net</a>><br>
Subject: Re: (urth) Typhon's nature<br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:4E933279.4000305@verizon.net">4E933279.4000305@verizon.net</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed</div><p>On 10/10/2011 1:29 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:<br>
> On 10/10/2011 7:43 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:<br>>> On 10/10/2011 3:30 AM, Jeff Wilson wrote:<br>>>> His thoughts being sent into far places could easily have been<br>>>> him spying through the remaining technological outposts similar to the<br>
>>> speaking machines in the Matchin Tower and Valeria's reception hall.<br>>>> He may have had telepresences there to keep his ruling face au courant.<br>>><br>>> Except that this would require "outposts" at the south pole and under<br>
>> the sea.<br>><br>> I don;t know about require; sensors can have ranges and their data may<br>> be used to infer details beyond those. An ancient but still functional<br>> satllite in orbit above the south pole and the sea could be accessible<br>
> to Typhon "Hmm, weather patterns continue to deteriorate... Great Me,<br>> what is that THING on the infrared?"<br>><br>> The talking machines could intercept intelligence from the Asciians'<br>
> transmissions and preserve it for their master's review. Jonas, for<br>> example, is a machine that knows about the great beasts without being<br>> currently at the south pole or under the sea. He probably lost his<br>
> antennas for far communication, though.<br>It's possible. It's just a lot to expect the reader to guess. And<br>Typhon, by his own account, is not one to speak indirectly. For myself,<br>I tend to want to interpret him as neither god nor demigod but as an<br>
example of pure hubris. He's like a tower built to reach Heaven. That<br>requires him to have been constructed by humans. Genetics (assuming we<br>allow a gene for telepathy, as we must if we allow telepathy, which we<br>
must because Mucor exists) explains Silk, Mucor, and Typhon.</p>