: There are a lot of contradictions here. How did Durandal find out about Thoth
: if not from the S'pht? And why did Durandal refer to Thoth as a S'pht AI
: when he clearly seems to be Jjaro in origin. And there is still the issue
: of the Thoth Terminal on We're Everywhere. I don't have the answers to
: these questions, but Thoth clearly wasn't completely dormant. Perhaps the
: Jjaro foresaw the Pfhor enslavement of the S'pht and knew that it was
: essential to the future balance of the Universe - it was only through that
: enslavement that we were ultimately able to defeat them. Interesting
: thoughts . . .
Hmm, this would make sense, especially if he were beyond rampancy as you posit. As the Marathon convention is, if Thoth were a S'Pht AI, he would be writing in yellow then wouldn't he?
I think this further supports the point that the Pfhor didn't know about him.
Or if they did, they may have thought he(?) was S'Pht.
OR, if they knew of his presence but left him alone its possible that they'd found something better on other Jjaro worlds and he was old news.