No-God = Zero-God = Yatwer, amirite???
I really don't think so. Something that comes even before Her.
I'll say it now, TZG is not the NG. The names are a red-herring.
Zero-God is the God of everything (and possibly nothing), aka The Absolute.
TZG is only The Absolute because It comes before everything. If something comes before It, then that It because the new Absolute, the new breath-that-is-ground. There can be but one self-moving soul. TZG as we know it could still, then, be the god of everything, but not be the Absolute.
Breeding young means quicker generations, more mutation, faster results, perhaps?
Brings up Whale-Mothers. Why would men be selected for physical and mental acuity and women selected for being giant whales? The only reason I can come up with is because the Dunyain needed to breed as much and as frequently as possible. Shorter generations means less time to breed the intellectual acuity to become a self moving soul. This can be achieved in several ways:
Breeding at younger ages. The early a woman can bare children, the more children she can have.
The older she can still bare viable children, the she can have total in her lifetime.
Shorter time period between birth and the next pregnancy
Shorter time to reach full term baby. I'm not sure the mother affects this, but I'm guessing a healthy momma that gives neutrants to babies more quickly means the baby grows faster.
These things might have selected for large women with wider hips, lead to retaining more fat and nutrient stores, and potentially selected against intellect.
Sorry if my misunderstanding of biology and pregnancy are grossly inadequate.
Yeah - that quote, H, I believe refers to the knife after Achamian has seen The Boy scrape at the Chorae with it. We know Emilidis wrought only the "best of" sorcerous objects.
Yeah, I found the quote, but lost it again, haha.
My point was that knife is going to kill someone. Someone who uses a Chorae and think they can't be hurt, since it can somehow remain ensorcelled even in the face of the Aporos...
We know so little about the sorcerous objects. Could be that they are just immune to the chorae because of the inscription. Recall the Wathi Doll breaking the circle. When the words are broken, the circle loses the spell. A chorae does not remove the inscription, so the blade should, imo, remain ensorcelled after a chorae is removed. Does the blade dim when the chorae is brought to it? If so, that confirms my suspicion, which is that the chorae only affects the object when touching, but the inscription remains and then 'reactivates' the sorcery written into it once the chorae is removed.
On chorae, Esmi mention she sleeps under a dome of chorae. So, there is precedence now for chorae in objects, even large ones (Mr.Tall also have chorae armor, but I assume the room Esmi was in was even larger than that).