I'm not certain it has been. Ever met the concept of "people as worlds*"? Define a single world to me (are we talking different rocks around different suns, different physical places on the same rock or within the Tower, different cultural, social and gender outlooks, a different temporal one, given the nature of the Tower, or something else: like mind-set and ethical morals each individual carries around, let alone each different brain that makes sense of the physical data around it?)... And a universe (same general problems apply: except focusing on the more quantum, wormhole, pretzel astrophysics, maybe, rather the "personal universe we carry in our heads" thing... who knows)? Then... tell me which interpretation of the ideas SIU was using.Seems like the whole Baam came from inside the tower debacle could have been put to rest a lot earlier. Right now I'm guessing the true heroine still hasn't appeared yet (yeah, pretty late!). Black March isn't reaching Baam's hands anytime soon and appeared before the question was asked. Yeon might be the heroine, since out of all the characters not Rachel has had the most personal contact with Baam. I hope not thought, since she goes much better with Wangnan.
Playful, trolling creator who likes to disguise his bread crumbs as herrings and dole out half-answers, remember?
*Yes, I've read way too much of les Philosophes for my own good. Let alone Gaiman, Pratchett, Gentle, Williams and others. It's not healthy, even if it does kind of gel with metacognitive psychological theories (except, when they don't: wall-banging stuff ensues with such gems as the concept of "rational actor" being abused)...
Edited by Euodiachloris, 24 November 2012 - 07:15 AM.