[Dragaera] More Jhegaala Spoilers -- Analysis of the life stages

[Erzsébet of Catspirit Wood]

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So, getting back to those stages of jhegaala development... which one
looks like a toad, do you suppose? The Levidopt? I don't know how that
would be a "recapitulation," but it wouldn't be especially mobile most
of the time, which fits with Steve the Younger's thoughts about Nero Wolfe.

It looks like the Notonide is the moth-like one... at least, it's the
only one that mentions wings.

Apoptera... some kind of blind tadpole with feelers? I had the
impression that it swims, but maybe I made that up. I'm not getting much
of a visual for the Steminastra.

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> Part One: (Egg) is the stage where the mother must leave the vulnerable egg
> alone with a father or father-substitute. 
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> Part Two: (Apoptera) is the stage of curious inquisition with all senses,
> while sight (and insight, by frequent metaphor in the book) is the last to
> develop.
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> Part Three: (Steminastra) is the Jhegaala's vulnerable yet reckless stage.
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> Part Four: (Notonide) is the Jhegaala's fast adolescence, a period of high
> vulnerability, intense and rapid physical transformation, development of
> wings and venom glands, and yet the Jhegaala is "never so much *itself* as
> when under intense pressure". 
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> Part Five: (Levidopt) is both a state of maturity and a recapitulation of
> the previous developments. 


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ErzsŽbet of Catspirit Wood
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