Fury in the Codex?

[kurikara-ryuoh.livejournal.com]

My first question is a nice light topic: What are the connection to furies and humans?

So furies are element creatures as with the windmanes and the mountain that doesn't like people, both mention in Bk1. However, if they are independent beings, why do the Marat not acknowledge them? Why do they only bond to humans and how does this bond work?
The Marat bond is a blood transfer, maybe like a DNA mapping or exchanging since she does get green eyes. Alerans have bonding with a fury. Both happen after a a certain age, so they aren't born with the talent, the mutation. It is a bit like mutants from x-men with their needing to "grow into" their furies. [I can't remember who says that or when.]

And what's with having more than one?!

Comments

[yaoimutt.livejournal.com]

ok, I know I wont do as good a job as everyone else with the explanations but here's my attempt anyways:

ok, the furies and human thing is actually something from a pagan belief, which states that all things in all of creation have soles and spirits, that's the furies part, they are the spirits of the wind, of the mountains of the tries, of the volleys and rivers and everything else (if you read one, Isana mentions that rill is the fury of the rill river, or at least she implies it, she said that it was why she calls him/her rill) it's also a native American belief.

now for the human connection, again, it has to do with a pagan belief (ok, this time it's just me making if/then ideas) in Wicca and Alexandria (both pagan religions) at the start of adulthood (about 13) you gain the ability to common with nature (though it also says that most people don't listen to them, and that they have no ability to hear them if they don't actually try, which is my idea of why the marat don't acknowledge them, it's because instead of trying to listen, they just say "it's your sorcery" and leave it at that) ANYWAYS, once you get so old, you can hear them, and then there is usually a specific spirit that you connect to better then others, and this spirit would be your sprit guide. (hence why most of the people can use a lot of furies, but have one or 2 specific furies that only listen to them)

and no, they aren’t mutants, from what I gather, from both Amara’s "you still have time to get them" comment to Tavi in the first book, and Kitai’s comment about "still a whelp" I think it's more like puberty, happens around that time, if you think about it, parts of your body don't have hair until then, so that's probably it, and as for the chala thing, it has nothing to do with blood, they were "sole gazing" basically, which is something in his other book series "the Dresden files", and is incidentally also a pagan belief (something I have started noticing a lot in his books) in this case it's the hole "look into someone or something’s eyes and you can see right into there sole and connect with it" part of Wicca and Alexandria, and it's also a native American thing, it even mentions the chala as totems, and they are very similar, it's a coming of age thing for native Americans, so I think that's all it is, sorry, no mutants

and the marat do not only bond with humans, the bond with all living creatures, Kitai is the first to ever bond with a human, I think that's manly because of the hole "kill first, talk later" thing between the two species.

AND some people have more then one fury because some people have more then one spirit or totem (in native Americas, some people have one, and some have 3 or 4 or even sometimes up to 6! O.O that's a lot)

again, I am not 100% on any of this, I could be wrong and be pointing you in the opposite direction for all I know, but I hope not, anyways, if you have any questions, you can always ask me, and if you find out that any of this is dead wrong, just let me know so that I don't sound like a bumbling idiot whenever I talk about this stuff >.< because I love the books and REALLY don't want to get all confused later on in the series!