Wars And A Choth

In Poul Anderson's History of Technic Civilization, three novels convey the sense of living in troubled times:

at the beginning of Mirkheim, war is imminent and this will be the beginning of the end of the Polesotechnic League;

at the beginning of The People Of The Wind, was is imminent and Avalon might lose its independence;

at the beginning of The Day Of Their Return, there is continued unrest on Aeneas after a failed rebellion (in The Rebel Worlds), Ivar Frederiksen leads an attack on Terran marines and the planet seethes with millennarian/Messianic expectations.

Additionally, The People Of The Wind tells us what it is like to be a human member of an Ythrian choth. A man addresses his son:

"...Daniel Holm nodded, and said quietly, 'I see. You're not Chris now, you're Arinnian,' and all at once looked old."

-Poul Anderson, The People Of The Wind IN Anderson, Rise Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, 2011), pp. 437-662 AT I, p. 437.

 

If we have read The Technic Civilization Saga consecutively, then we might remember that the editor Hloch had informed us that Arinnian of Stormgate Choth, whose human name is Christopher Holm, had written an earlier installment. Now we are reading a Technic History installment with Arinnian as one of the characters. Alternatively, if we have read Anderson's Technic History in its original publishing order, then we encountered Arinnian/Chris as a character before reading Hloch's editorial reference to him.

So what is it like to be a human member of a choth?