^^^^
I agree with lots of what Paul writes, and think that the Good Son/Bad Son split is a useful starting point for understanding Karrg and ZZ (but not the whole picture). I am suspicious, though, of the description of the uz womb or caves as warm, with all the positive connotations that word has for humans. Trolls have the same connotations for "cool," and that's how they'd describe wombs or caves in contrast to Komor, the hurtplace (surface world). [Maybe teenaged trolls say something is "warm" if they like it--cf. human teenagers' use of "cool."]
Uz are not like us. They are not mammalian. They are not just big anthropophagous people with crude weapons and thick fat who hate fire. They have the "Man" rune, but that similarity to humans has been made too much of. We need to pare down the Man rune to determine just what it means. Uz are alien, inhuman, other.
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