WHAT/WHO did you like?

I really like Spine.
He's so Happy and Carefree and all over Brill.
He kept me Loving Wavedancers.
Oh yes, and Wavecatchers Dedication of trying to see Yun again (For Many MANY turns after the great fire). I thought that was sweet.

Well i liked the OWD, but more for the art than for the story.

As you can see Raenafel is my favourite ;) also Tentus and Tilaweed... they are all pretty (especially in the "group photo" - i mean a large centerspread) but there's something in them, the same thing both in the art and in the story...

They seem... a bit too much humanlike to me...
Even their features...some of them remind of some typical features of people on our earth... i won't say that Tilaweed's mate is a viking warrior and raenafel sometimes a jewish or arabian princess...but i hope you can get my point.

They seem too humanlike...the art is marvellous...outstanding... maybe next best thing to Wendy's art... but .. err.. let's say it's unstable, shaky...
The characters are sometimes so real, so alike with humans (proportions, mimics) but at the same time some jests seem to be just a tiny bit exagerated...some poses too unreal) (legs too thin, curves too much..whatever))

But still it's splendid,.. especially the backgrounds and mermaids. It gives the atmosphere of elfquest.

However.. the story itself... i thought it was a bit off the line. Concept of a cruel high one... a secluded tribe dreading the curse of recognition...

And if you read the synopsis for the stories that would have followed after the first set of 6... you'll see it... distorted abused children, almost as dreadful as depicting dismemberment and torture... I wonder how they were planning to draw those things.

There's plenty of cruelty and blood, of death and pain... and other features of real life - in other series that Warp did.
But the story seemed too cruel, unfitting. The whole story lacked something that makes a myth. It was more like a bad dream put into a beautifull shell of elfquest)

But there were plenty of High Ones at least that we knew of))) and that's a good thing.
I hope we knew more about firstcomers and their children)

The one thing that bugged me was the "true crown" thing. It has too much of a relent of the "divinely" ordained kings and dictators. Leadership is also hereditary amont the Wolfriders, but challenge is acceptable. In the OWD, Hyphus is supposed to give up his position just because some brat, whose leadership abilities noone knows, comes back from parts unknown and claims to be the heir. When they became chiefs, both Cutter and Ember had to prove themselves to the elders. The art, I have nothing against.

Are you talking about Winnowill or Raenafel?

If it is Raenafel then, and I can't exactly remember, but she didn't just come in, get crowned, and start giving orders right? I'm sure there was much learning to be done on her part and they just seem to really respect the idea of direct leadership. :)

But if it was Winnie then the only reason they believed her was because a High One told them she was the crown. (He was a High One right? :?) And they respected that.

Winnowill or Raenafel; high one or no high one; the problem isn't whether it is a good hereditary monarch or a bad one, the rightful heir or an imposter, but that the custom seems to forbid any alternative, even when it is for the best of the whole tribe. Even Brom's legitimacy was put in doubt because the previous crown, his mother, wasn't proven dead and his reign remained a limbo type regency. What makes me uncomfortable is the unrealistic rigidity of the system: nobody argues that the heir should at least learn to live with her people for a while and really understand what their preocupations are, before taking over, by virtue of an uncanny supernatural and instaneous universal understanding of all things. Even Louis XIV didn't have such a limitless power.

Well good thing it isn't cannon then eh?

Brill grew on me, but it's all about Krill, Spray and Moonmirror!! :o

I agree with Kitt! I think Moonmirror is absolutely gorgeous! :P
But Brill is most likely my #2 favorite female elf after Tyleet. They are similar and I can identify with both of them. :D

Kitt, definitely. My favorites too. Them, and Darshek.

His speech in Discovery about humans having two sides...I wanna know how he escaped!!

Plus...he's HOT. :love:

He's easy on the eyes... that's for sure. :)

Though I think the cutest (as drawn by Wendy) is Brill's ex-boyfriend...

(what's his name?)

I have never read Old Wavedancers-- and based on Raenafel's description, I'm glad.

I enjoyed New Wavedancers, though some of the characters (like Skimback) made no impression whatsoever on me until I saw them in The Discovery. I really liked Skimback in The Discovery. He was a good friend to Snakeskin, whom I also liked a lot more in The Discovery than I had in New Wavedancers.

In New Wavedancers, I liked Spine and Darshek best. Spine seemed like Skywise in many ways-- so funloving and yet sensitive and caring-- and Darshek was very brave.

Krill is a kind of person I would very much enjoy as a friend.

Seeing Krill and Darshek as lovemates in 'Discovery' tickled me no end. She's my favorite of NWD ladies, and he's my favorite of the fellows. And seeing that the two of them wound up together in the end just gave me the warm fuzzies all over.

"Even Louis XIV didn't have such a limitless power."

Well I think what was a strength in the OWD in their representation in the "True Crown". It's different to both real world hereditary hierarchy and what has been shown in other tribes in EQ, who wants a new tribe to explore that does everything the same as all the others. This is what cultural difference is all about. Their way of doing things may not conform with what you believe should be "the way" but it is often these same people that have such strong views on other peoples cultures that incite wars because of these differences.

It brings to mind the Lilliputians and Blefuscu in Guliver's Travels... One community broke a boiled egg at the pointed end, and the other broke a boiled egg at the rounded end... and THIS was the reason for the cities to war with each other.

Consider that the OWD had a way... 'Their way" that worked for them. Also they have been thus in isolation for all these years. I'm sure "their way" makes total sense to each and every OWD tribe member.