What are BEMs?

Hi everybody. I'm new to the forum and to the YW series. I'm currently reading High Wizardry and something has really been bugging me: What the heck does BEM stand for?
Maybe I'm completely dumb and should know already, or maybe I'm just being impatient and it's revealed at the end. Or maybe no one knows. lol
Also, are they some sort of "dark wizard"? The computer calls them emissaries when Dairine asks - a title, if I'm not mistaken, generally reserved for wizards. So confued I am!
Haha, thanks in advance.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
- Emma Goldman

Hi everybody. I'm new to the forum and to the YW series. I'm currently reading High Wizardry and something has really been bugging me: What the heck does BEM stand for?
Maybe I'm completely dumb and should know already, or maybe I'm just being impatient and it's revealed at the end. Or maybe no one knows. lol
Also, are they some sort of "dark wizard"? The computer calls them emissaries when Dairine asks - a title, if I'm not mistaken, generally reserved for wizards. So confued I am!
Haha, thanks in advance.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
- Emma Goldman

[meteorite]

BEM = Bug Eyed Monster. Standard jargon for any unidentified non-hominid alien. In this instance, non-human wizard.

[Rysade]

[Rowen Avalon]

As for the emissaries thing, this was something I thought about when I read this passage but always forgot to follow through on. So, I've gotten up and gotten the dictionary. *Ahem* An emissary is one who is sent on a mission. Though DD uses it to refer to wizards, the general word could also mean the BEMs were sent on a mission by the Lone Power.

On the other hand, they could indeed be wizards. Maybe DD has something planned for them?? I doubt it though. I'd go for them being sent on a mission by the LP.

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Thanks So much. You guys are awesome. That would have driven me insane.
Anyway, on a lighter note, I absolutle love the ending of this book. I hate to say it, but I'm actually starting to like Dairine . . .

"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."
- Seneca

[Wilf]

Dairine is the bratty younger sibling I never had... I sometimes wonder if I was like her at that sort of age. When that happens, I go and look at my old school reports...

[Birdhead]

*snickers* Yeah, it took me until my third re-readign (with fine toothcomb. It was starting to, uh, bug me... pun not particularly intended) to get that... I think it was becasue she doesn't really do the whole "Bug Eyed monster. OOh, that has a BEM acronym" thing (because it would be painfully clumsy!) Acronyms tend to be a bit more obvious... plus there's a page turn on the copy I was reading from.
T

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[Civi]

lol, took me a while to get it too.

-IV-

[EWizard11]

Same, I didn't notice until one of the rereads: but the first time I read HW I actually didn't read it. I listened to it on tape. That's how I got introduced to the series. However, I didn't get it on the second reread, when I actually read it. Took me a while.

*Ella*
Hakuna Matata, people!
Whoopee! It's almost summer! (This is the part when I remember that I have to move this summer.)

[Garrett Fitzgerald]

Originally posted by rhywun:
Anyway, on a lighter note, I absolutle love the ending of this book. I hate to say it, but I'm actually starting to like Dairine . . .

As of 1986, so did Diane: she told the convention group I was in that Dairine was her favorite.

Of course, this was 17 years ago, so take that with a grain of... oh my god i'm getting old....

[Birdhead]

Take that with a grain of... oh my god I'm getting old? er, if you say so...

And yeah, you may be. I wasn't born 17 years ago... on the other hand, I could just be young.
T

Tuibird in Aotearoa
Conservationist, Scientist, and proud of both!
Chocolate lover extraordinaire...
Ahahahaha, ahahahahaha, ahahahaha...
My mission: Bringing Maori to the world!
Spelling Freak and Typo Queen

[Agent M]

Hmmm. I never knew that BEM stood for Bug Eyed Monster. Well I guess ya learn something new everyday. And I think that Dairene is my bookself only a little bit younger, seriouly, same hair color and she acts like me too. and she loves computers, or so it seems.

Evil will always lose.- Miep Gies

[Birdhead]

Ahah, I was RIGHT, you ARE a redhead. Curious as to what I'm talking about? It's from a post in Chatter. I guessed right, awesome.
T

Tuibird in Aotearoa
Conservationist, Scientist, and proud of both!
Chocolate lover extraordinaire...
Ahahahaha, ahahahahaha, ahahahaha...
My mission: Bringing Maori to the world!
Spelling Freak and Typo Queen

[Agent M]

Yep. Red head I am. the only good thing about it is that it's origianal and the same as Dairienes!

Evil will always lose.- Miep Gies