The history of human-Ythrian interactions is complete in The People Of The Wind, The Earth Book Of Stormgate and The Day Of Their Return and is a major part of Poul Anderson's History of Technic Civilization which is principally a history of human beings but also incorporates a history of Merseians mainly but not entirely in relation to their dealings with human beings.
Yywyr summarizes two major stages of human-Merseian interaction:
"'...Terrans, our one-time saviors and teachers, now our mighty rivals.'" (p. 283)
Terrans were saviors and teachers in "Day of Burning" and had become rivals in Ensign Flandry. Two intermediate stages: Merseians were disaffected in Mirkheim but their Roidhunate was growing in The People Of The Wind. We will learn more about the Merseians themselves in A Circus Of Hells and again in The Game Of Empire. See here.
I want to stay with Merseians for a while.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteIf the Roidhunate was still small but growing in THE PEOPLE OF THE WIND, then it definitely became a rival of the Empire a century later, another century before ENSIGN FLANDRY. By then the Roidhunate would have been probing, prodding, scheming, etc., just how far they could safely go undermining Terra.
Ad astra! Sean