Comments | ravelwoods: Chroday, 25th Cycle, Seventh Year, 81st Turn

ravelwoods

Chroday, 25th Cycle, Seventh Year, 81st Turn

Aug 25, 2006 02:51

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ravelwoods August 25 2006, 09:56:58 UTC

Just a note. We're on a five-day-a-week schedule now, so there won't be any entries over the weekend. However, I will try and get my fellow scholars to get caught up on the entries. Can't think where they've gone off to.

--Avos Torr, Scholar of Rheve Library

lunar_music August 26 2006, 01:08:27 UTC

I'm sure I saw Scholar Brownden going back for thirds this morning at breakfast. I haven't seen Scholar Oddsworth since the potted plant debacle, though.
-Aamy Selena, Journeyman Cartographer

chriswheeler August 25 2006, 13:13:53 UTC

I've several impressions of the passage, the first as regards the elves. Having read one other manuscript that describes the elves in a similar light, the journal entry today confirms that the elves regard everything and everyone as objects for their sole amusement, like children but with no boundaries of what is right or wrong.
Unfortunately they rarely meet any other entities that can stop them on their own level, and most that encounter them have to either flee or block their paths, any way that they can. An excellent essay to read is The Standing Stones by Rees Menhr, which describes the use of rock circles and other constructed assemblies as markers and warnings for stable gateways. Aframos of course uses one at the start of this Journal(Chroday, Thirteenth Cycle, Seventh Year, 81st Turn, 12 cycles ago!)

The second thought is that the third last paragraph describes at least two of the scholars in the library. Were any in the Phobetor expedition?

lunar_music August 26 2006, 01:27:29 UTC

I have to wonder exactly why you're restating what is generally known about elves. Only particularly backward humans cherish the "wise, kind guardian of the forest" image, you know.

I will, however, have to aquire a copy of that essay. It sounds facinating.
-Aamy Selena, Journeyman Cartographer.

chriswheeler August 26 2006, 07:06:36 UTC

Bear in mind that I am from a Plains people, so they don't appear much in our mythology or history.

-Chris Wheeler, Wandering Monk, Plains Wolf Clan.

lunar_music August 26 2006, 21:04:09 UTC

My apologies. There was a tribe of elves who made a complete nuisance of themselves in the woods above my hometown. Seemed to think that it was within their right to line perfectly habitable cave systems with three-inch glowing quartz crystals - they didn't even want to live in them, just make them "pretty."
-Aamy