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- From: 2120158@hydra.maths.unsw.EDU.AU ()
- Subject: Re: The Orb and Aldur.
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 01:06:04 GMT
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- In article <924818114854@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk> STUCS204@UK.AC.BHAM.IBM3090 writes:
- >It has been suggested by a few users of this net that the orb has sentience. Th
- >e question that arises is 'Did Aldur,while forming the orb, give it sentience (
- >addition - was Aldur the origonal Child of Light).Or did the prophecy (the voic
- >e that speaks to Garion on occasions) give the orb sentience. Or it the orbs' s
- >entience the prophecy itself.
- >
- > What does anyone think.
- >
- > / stucs204@uk.ac.bham \ - aka Richard.
-
-
- I agree that the orb does have some independant thought (witness Garion on his
- way to meet Torak, Belgarath "explained" to it why it should make itself
- "unnoticable", also witness (somewhere in the Mallorean) the orb explaining to
- Garion how to fix the crack that Torak make in the world).
-
- However as to how it developed, I would like to say that I think that Aldur
- formed it, or it formed itself. Here are some reasons why:
- 1) If the prophecy formed it, why when the prophecy was destroyed in the
- end, did the orb retain it's intelligence. (Weak reasoning I know.)
-
- 2) If the orb's sentience is the prophecy, then why is the orb described
- as childish (see Belgarath talking to the orb in Bk 4,Belgariad), while the
- prophecy is very intelligent.
-
- Also to be taken into the arguement is that the prophecy has been around for a
- long time, where the orb appears to be relatively new.
-
-
- Later,
- Matthew.
-
-