I was just about to turn in but a combox comment made me search the blog for the phrase, "old castle," and thus I found the two descriptions of the Falkayn home. I think that we deserve some account of why the two accounts are so different.
I have started to reread The Man Who Counts as being an early novel-length Technic History instalment.
The earliest idea of the Diomedeans was of intelligent fliers. The earliest idea of the Ythrians was of organisms with biological super-chargers, then this led to the idea that such an enhancement would enable intelligent beings to fly in terrestroid conditions. So the Technic History wound up with two intelligent flying species.
To those who read, good flight.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I would argue that, during the anarchy of the Time of Troubles, many people would quite naturally call many defensive fortresses as "castles." Or even before then, when we recall the Old Keep on Hermes.
Happy New Year! Sean
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