[Dragaera] Jenoine, Humans, Gods-To-Be, Amorphia, Great Weapons, Barrett, and Various Combinations Thereof

[Jon Lincicum]

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From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
> --- On Tue, 9/30/08, Erzsébet of Catspirit Wood <dalton_0907 at gaeacoop.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> > I could go with most of this, but I'm not so convinced
> > about Chaz. I'm 
> > more inclined to think that he was another of the
> > Jenoine's renegade 
> > servants, or possibly another test subject. (The
> > disagreement between 
> > Chaz and Sethra about which is older might be partially due
> > to a 
> > non-linear perception of time reminiscent of the Gods and
> > the Serioli. 
> > Maybe Chaz was something of an attempt to infuse Serioli
> > genes into a human?)
> ...
> 
> Heh.
> 
> It seems very likely to me that Chaz's full name,
> Dri'Chazik a Tukknaro Dzur (thanks to the Lyorn records),
> means <something> of Dzur Mountain.  I tend to think the
> "something" is "humanoid incarnation", but I suppose it
> could be "human-Serioli hybrid" or "mainframe".

While I'm not sure that Chaz-as-a-computer is the best theory in the world (it's become a bit of a cliche idea in recent SF stories) it's certainly not a possibility I'd seen discussed before. Might explain some aspects of his personality, and his ability to be exactly where he's needed at all times.

> The younger-older question could also be settled if
> either Sethra or Chaz has gone through a drastic change.
> For instance, Dzur Mountain is presumably millions of
> years older than Sethra, but maybe it acquired a humanoid
> avatar only after she existed (maybe when the Great Sea
> was created).

In my version, Chaz, as a self-aware entity, is older than Sethra. But Sethra, as an independent organism, is older than Chaz. Doubtless there are dozens of other scenarios in which both conditions could be satisfied. 

Majikjon