The Sky And Earth Books Of Stormgate

Rennhi wrote The Sky Book Of Stormgate which we never see. A comprehensive history of the Stormgate Choth, it covers:

the ancestors on Ythri;

the founders on Avalon;

their descendants until Rennhi's time.

 

Rennhi's son, Hloch, wrote The Earth Book Of Stormgate which we read as one volume of Poul Anderson's History of Technic Civilization. It covers:

 

the Discovery, i.e., first contact with Terrans;

Ythrian-human exploration of Avalon;

other pre-colonization human activities;

the World-Taking, i.e., the two-stage human-Ythrian colonization of Avalon.

Thus, Hloch's volume covers more than the history of a single choth and recounts events on several planets other than Ythri or Avalon. Some time in the past year, I examined Hloch's reasons for including each of the narratives that he chose for the Earth Book and found that they were more relevant than they seemed.