Intelligent Flying Carnivores

Ythrians energize their bodies by pumping oxygen into their veins when flapping their wings, especially when they are flying, but they walk awkwardly, cannot be confined and cannot swim or survive in water. They are feathered although not birds. An Ythrian would go insane in a spacesuit. An Ythrian spaceship must allow enough room to spread their wings and must have a wide view of space. On a long voyage, they need a large hold to fly around in. They are carnivores, not omnivores, therefore cannot opt for vegetarianism. They must hunt or herd and therefore are territorial. Their most basic social unit is widely separated families. The next largest unit is the choth which has Wyvans, law interpreters, but no government monopolizing violence. Order is maintained by custom and pride. Parents are bonded by child-care, not by sex which is seasonal except in a few aberrant females. A child clings to either parent in flight.

Given all that, how would Ythrians view God and how would God, assuming that He exists of course, judge Ythrians? Not by exactly the same moral code as human beings, presumably. Poul Anderson's characters face and discuss such questions. We know that Christians find different answers to fundamental questions and Poul Anderson's Technic History reflects this. Christians on Aeneas are outbackers. Peter Berg's Church has decided that Jesus came only to mankind whereas the Jerusalem Catholic Church later converts and ordains Axor, a Wodenite, who then seeks for evidence of a non-human Incarnation and might even find something like that among inscriptions left by the extinct Ancients/Chereionites. The universe of the Technic History is as ambiguous and mysterious as this empirical universe.