Sleep, breathing also pyromancy/mastery

[quote=fallen_one_84;4741]hey got a problem. here.

chapter 128
Mount Doom: DOA+7, Late First Period

Tom thought for a moment, “it also explains that why once
Doom shutdown and the D’Orcs no longer got tired, and many stopped
sleeping, so many of them gave up the will to live. It was this immortal
existential dread!” Tom shook his head, this made so much more sense
now.

in book two it said some of the elder D’orcs ended up sleeping in despair and gave up the will to live.

when they are discussing beds

Tom chuckled. “ But you did need babies.”
Zelda grinned. “ Indeed we did. But also because… well, to be honest, many of the elders were filled with despair and sorrow. This caused them to sleep more, and sometimes worse.”
Tom shuddered, thinking about the depressed D’Orcs.

which is it did they end up sleeping or not.
or did they just lie around in their beds in despair.
also when did the elders end up dying?
right after Orcus’s death or after a few hundred years.
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I can see the apparent contradiction. It’s a subtle difference, and in some ways, two sides of the coin.

Doom shutdown so they did not “need” to sleep in order to charge their mana, or their bodies since they were no longer in competition with Doom.

However, many chose to sleep due to depression. I would argue that it was a fitful depressed sleep and not at all restful. When one has very severe depression they are tired a lot, regardless of how much sleep they did or did not get.

So only some D’Orcs slept, and even then it was probably not regular. I would suspect they might go months or years without sleep and then basically hibernate, “Trying to make the world go away.”

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chapter 121
Murgatroy

Vaselle Zed and Teragdor

dicussing Vaselle’s boss

“And what does this Edwyrd do?” Teragdor asked while taking
another swig of beer.
“He’s an animage. Mostly pyromancy.” Vaselle answered, trying
to remember what his master had told him of this Edwyrd identity.

shouldn’t the pyromancy be pyromastery instead?

or is this an issue with Vaselle not knowing it’s pyromastery instead of pyromancy.
or is he dumbing it down for his audience.
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Great question, such thoughts ran through my head reading this again. However, it’s a typo on my part. He should have said pyromastery.
However, if you had not caught this before it was published. I’d have changed my story to give one of those answers.

o:)

[quote=fallen_one_84;4741]
also in the beginning of the book Sam ends up thinking of breathing.

The ambient temperature should have
been near the boiling point of water, instead, a few minutes ago he had
seen his breath start to liquefy as it left his body and cooled. Clearly, it
was the carbon dioxide, but as it had gotten colder, he began to wonder
about the oxygen, nitrogen and argon. This form liked to breathe and it
would be terribly inconvenient if the air suddenly became liquid. His furs
would also get soggy.

doe’s Sam’s human form really need to breath or is it an idiosyncrasy of his.

Or is he eccentric enough to make his human form have all its needs and issues.

I think i remember Tom/Edwyrd forgetting to breath when he’s in his human form.
or maybe that’s from another book i am reading.

also woot used a big word.[/quote]

You are correct, it’s basically all of the above. He only needs to breathe to talk, but he is a perfectionist so he does breath in his human form.
It is, of course, a modified human form so that he can breath air at temperature extemes, even as his skin can withstand it.

However, breathing liquid would create a problem because that’s functional vs temperature proofing. I.e he’d drown, or more precisely cough and if bad enough, just have to stop breathing.

And finally: we now have a Woot Icon [woot]
Its on smiley page 3, or just ‘woot’ in square brackets.