"The Faun" III

See "The Faun" II.

8 Arcadian years = 17 Terrestrial. (See A Scene On Mithras, here.)

We learn that:

Tom is a "Faun," able to open all his senses to his total environment;

the Arcadian population is 10,000;

whereas frozen animal sperm and eggs were sent to Rustum, frozen embryos were sent to Arcadia; 

Edmund Wylie is the Arcadian president;

in a passage narrated from Wylie's pov, Wylie sees the Faun who is referred to as "Tom," thus indicating that the president knows the Faun's name;

in fact, the surprise ending is that Wylie and Tom are father and son;

a Faun, like the planetary consciousnesses in the Harvest of Stars Tetralogy, directly experiences the ecology.