Hloch's History

On p. 1 of The Earth Book Of Stormgate (New York, 1978), Hloch uses the term "...bloodpride..." interchangeably with "deathpride." These must be two English renderings of a Planha term. I prefer "deathpride," although I do not share Ythrian morality but then I am not an Ythrian.

Hloch's introductions bind together a lot of the Technic History:

"The rest would appear to be everyone's knowledge: how, at last, inevitably, the secret of Mirkheim's existence was ripped asunder; how the contest for its possession brought on the Babur War..." (p. 409)

This refers to the events of Mirkheim.

"...how that struggle turned out to be the first civil war in the Commonwealth..." (ibid.)

That the Commonwealth was destroyed by a series of civil wars had already been established in "The Star Plunderer" and "Sargasso of Lost Starships."

"Eventually the Commonwealth, too, went under. The Troubles were only quelled with the rise and expansion of the Empire -" (ibid.)

The Empire is proclaimed in "The Star Plunderer."

" - and its interior peace is often bought with foreign violence,..." (ibid.)

This could refer to the events of "Sargasso of Lost Starships."

"...as Ythri and Avalon have learned. Honor be forever theirs whose deathpride preserved for us our right to rule ourselves!" (ibid.)

This refers explicitly to The People Of The Wind.

"As for the creation and history of our choth on Avalon, that is in The Sky Book Of Stormgate." (p. 410)

This refers to a book that we do not read but wish we could.

"Hloch has...chosen two final tales...
"The first of them is the last that Judith Dalmady/Lundgren wrote for Morgana." (ibid.)

This refers to the daughter of the central character of "Esau." The "...two final tales..." are boys' adventure juvenile fiction, very different from the pulp magazine short stories already mentioned. Thus, a future history links different narrative types.