We already know that:
Stormgate is the name of an Avalonian choth;
Avalon is a human colony planet with a large Ythrian minority;
the "choth" is the basic unit of Ythrian social organization after the family;
Ythrians are flying carnivores so their psychology, sociology and theology differ from ours.
Reading Hloch's first Earth Book INTRODUCTION which, in the Saga, comes near the beginning of Volume I, The Van Rijn Method, we find:
"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, 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, December 2009), pp. 75-77 AT p. 75.
We know that:
the Weathermother is theYthrian name for the Andromedas, the highest mountain range on Avalon;
Stormgate is based in the Weathermother;
a Wyvan is a judge;
Lythran and Blawsa are the heads of a household;
bloodpride, also called deathpride, is the highest obligation for an Ythrian.
Further along, we find references to the human towns, Gray and Centauri, and to the Terran War. The People Of The Wind describes a lot of activity in both those towns and is entirely focused on the Terran War. In the Saga, these references are tantalizing hints of what is to come. We should read the Technic History in one order and reread it in the other.
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Kaor, Paul!
"Inside" the Technic timeline we are supposed to think the SAGA was compiled centuries later, with the contents of the EARTH BOOK redistributed among the other Technic stories not included in the EARTH BOOK in internal chronological order.
Ad astra! Sean
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