From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" 
Subject: RE: (urth) Pas's Two Heads
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 10:14:59 -0800

There is nothing in the books which seems to me to suggest 
that the appearance of the Gods of Mainframe is necessarily
based upon the appearance of the bodies in which they resode 
when they were scanned -- it seems to be more a matter of 
either self-image or a chosen image. (Does Tartaros manifest 
visibly?) 

The "scan" seems to be a sort of brain-snapshot, or perhaps 
soul-snapshot. So even if it was taken when Typhon was 
grafted onto Piaton, it would only be a scan of the one 
brain.

It is not at all clear to me why Pas has two heads, but it 
seems clear that this is a choice Typhon made, either
consciously or un-. It might have some reference to the
Piaton body; it seems likely to me that he would want to 
scan himself at the last possible moment before the launch 
of the _Whorl_, to preserve as much of his self as possible.

--Blattid


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