This chapter's epigraph is from the play's opening soliloquy, "Rebirth to be a Great God" . It's a quote from Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, in which a merchant laments the loss of his merchant's son, who is now a god-like being. The merchant asks who the god is, and the man replies that he is a fur trader from the plains. He and his companions came to the area to trade fur, and they heard that the area was rich with life force. The merchants wonder if the barbarians are also