"[Eyath] asked permission to leave of her father Lythran and her mother Blawsa..."
-The People Of The Wind, I, p. 443.
Hloch of the Stormgate Choth compiles The Earth Book Of Stormgate because:
"His Wyvan Tariat, son of Lythran and Blawsa, has asked this."
Poul Anderson, The Van Rijn Method (Riverdale, NY, December 2009), p. 75.
So Tariat is Eyath's brother. Hloch's Earth Book follows directly from The People Of The Wind. It stays with the theme of human-Ythrian interactions but backtracks to first contact with Ythri, then to joint exploration of Gray/Avalon, and ends with the two-stage colonization of Avalon. However, between these opening and closing instalments, it returns to the earlier Polesotechnic League period so that we again read about characters who are by now long dead:
Adzel
van Rijn
David Falkayn and the trader team
Coya Conyon
We see again the planets Ivanhoe and Mirkheim while the planets Diomedes and Merseia are introduced. A magnificent future history series.
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