The Erulani (enslaved by former Nomads):
"The eyes were the least human feature under a single straight line of black brow, they were oblique and felinoid - all smoky-red iris, slit-purpled and unwinking." (p. 76)
Indeed. I understand that there are several different kinds of eyes on Earth so an alien intelligence is unlikely to reproduce human-like eyes.
When a human ruler of Erulan greets visitors from the Peregrine, the wind shrills under his words and blows them across the barren flag-stones.
As ever, the wind comments as does the barrenness of the flag-stones.
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Kaor, Paul!
I remember the Erulani now. And now the other Nomads had not approved of what the former Nomads had done on Erulan. That said, the human conquerors had behaved no worse than what the Erulani had been doing to each other.
Yes, we should expect the eyes of many non human races to look differently from ours.
Ad astra! Sean
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