Lythran's Aerie

The People Of The Wind.

Another name that we have read before soon hits us:

"To reach Lythran's aerie before dark, [Arinnian] must start soon. Of course, a car could cover the distance in less than an hour; but who wanted to fly caged in metal and plastic?" (I, p. 439)

The Anglic term, "aerie," is applied to an Ythrian dwelling. We understand that the car would be an aircar, which is taken for granted in a lot of futuristic sf. Arinnian, wanting to live like a winged Ythrian, will fly with a gravbelt:

"O God, to have real wings!" (I, p. 441)

We have read of Lythran once before:

"To those who read, good flight.
"It is Hloch of the Stormgate Choth who writes, on the peak of Mount Anrovil in the Weathermother. His Wyvan, Tariat son of Lythran and Blawsa, has asked this. Weak though his grip upon the matter be, bloodpride requires he undertake the task."
-Poul Anderson, INTRODUCTION WINGS OF VICTORY IN Anderson, The Van Rijn Method (Riverdale, NY, 2009), pp. 75-77 AT p. 75.

We are immersed in alien concepts although Hloch asks his Ythrian readers to swing their minds into human alienness in order to seize the knowledge presented in his Earth Book.