Talk:Races of Bas-Lag

message: Someone add info on constructs? - Tredanse 02:23, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, they're certainly sentient. Even though they aren't a bilogical race, I think there should be a little note about them somewhere here, perhaps then with a link to the section you mentioned on the Bas-Lag page. - Tredanse 03:26, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough. However, I believe the sentience of the constructs was presented in Perdido Street Station as a phenomenon that only affected a certain number of the machines, certainly not all of them. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that the constructs themselves were intelligent but instead were controlled by the Construct Council, by sort of a hive mind. So I believe that the Council definitely deserves mentioning in the article, not constructs themselves presented as a sentient race. Deyyaz 03:44, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Possibly then the section titled "Deities and other mysterious creatures" should be retitled so that the Construct Council can also be included? Only I don't know what that title would be.. - Tredanse 05:02, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The current title might be fine since the Construct Council had a considerable religious following. I think it might fit under the deity label Deyyaz 17:05, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Constructs

message: I'm not sure who wrote the section on weavers... I was just wondering though, do we know if there's more than one Weaver? I was under the impression (I could be wrong) that there was only one.
I believe there is more than one. 
PSS refers to Weavers fighting one another over aesthetic disagreements and humans always say "a" weaver rather than "the" weaver. Also Isaac sees an alleged weavers claw at the circus suggesting more than one.
Though the weavers in PSS & IC may be the same one the characters certainly believe in multiple weavers
Lostsocks 17:51, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weaver 

message: Should we detail the various gods/religions of Bas-Lag here as well as the various godlike entites (CC, Avanc, Weaver etc)
The books only allude to their existence but they make up an interesting part of the Bas-Lag universe.
If not, where perhaps would be more suitable?
Lostsocks 17:56, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a very good question. Is it ever implied that the gods worshipped in Bas-Lag actually exist as physical beings? If this is the case then I would have no objection to them being included on this page. However, an explanation of each religion e.g. Godmech Cogs , should either be covered in the Bas-Lag article or in its own article. Deyyaz [ Talk | Contribs ] 23:14, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Deities Etc

message: Under the human section, I added that non-human sentients are collectively referred to as "xenians". I'm not sure if that's the right place to put it, or maybe even if we should retitle the "other races" section as "xenians", or what. thoughts?
I agree. There should be a section for Xenians, and then there should be a section for Humanoids. There should not be a "minor races" section.Moongoblin 19:32, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Xenian

message: I'd like there to be an article on non-sentient creatures, but I was wondering if it should be a seperate article or incorporated here (or into the Bas Lag article even). There are tons of creatures to mention, the following examples from Iron Council alone:
*Nashorns - gigantic, two-storey rhinos Remade into war machines with drilling horns, gunnery, etc
*Ghuls - described as pale, simian and eyeless
*Vinhogs - buffalo-sized hogs with symbiotic vines growing from under their skin
And PSS of course has slake moths. Also, this article already has a few arguably non-sentient species on it...
Tredanse (talk) 04:51, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-sentient creatures of Bas-Lag