12-04-2012, 01:16 PM
Havard Wrote:They feature the Burrowers quite heavily and there may be named individuals there (or not).
Not 110% sure if Burrowers should have proper names known to the people... maybe they could tell their own names to humans when they send their dreams, but doesn't look like a high chance occurrence to me.
After all, creatures that live in solitude for several millennia, mostly in lethargy, with no need to communicate with peers (I assume that names were invented to distinguish yourself from another one within a community...), may not feel the need to have a name and, even more, to introduce themselves with their name to somebody else (shaking hands?
hock: ).... what do you think?Maybe the names are given by the humans to them, but they don't necessarily need to be something recognized/accepted by the Burrower...
(of course the alternative is no less interesting, i.e. the Burrowers are actually a community, that evolves and interacts very, very, very slowly... and this could explain their wars for primacy and their collective ability to summon Outer Beings...)
On the other hand, the Egg of Coot is a name (strange, but a name)...
He's a real Nowhere man, sitting in his Nowhere land,
making all his Nowhere plans for Nobody.
making all his Nowhere plans for Nobody.