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Like, put down a list of rules that make up what the Way actually is? By codified, I mean a 10 Commandments style list that essentially sums up the Way.]]> http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7847/the-way/ Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:19:24 +0000 Angelalex242 http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7837/birth-order-of-the-wolfriders/
By the time of Starfall, Starrise Cutter obviously haven't been born yet. During the 'Establishing Shot' of the holt, right before Shale heads out to Eyes High following people are there:

Shale.
Bearclaw and Joyleaf. Lifemates but not yet recognized.
Treestump and Rillfisher. Love or Lifemates, but not yet recognized.
Rain.
Pike. Appearing to be still pretty much a cub. (possibly part of the rescue mission).
Redmark. Around the same age as Pike, yet old enough to be part of the rescue mission.
Foxfur.
Some guy in the tree (either lowering a basket down to Foxfur, or raising in op from where she is) that I'd identify as Woodlock.
A pair of legs on a branch. (I'm guessing one of the "remaining couples", Strongbow and Moonshade, Woodhue/One-Eye and Clearbrook or Longbranch and Brownberry)
Some person in a den too far away to see.
Eyes High is out in her nest.

Logically speaking following people have also been born at this time:

Woodhue/One-Eye and Clearbrook. Elders.
Strongbow and Moonshade. Elders.
Longbranch and Brownberry. Nightfall will be born in around eight years.

Speculations:

Rain is lamenting the recent captures and killings. Does that mean that Crescent is dead?
Has Woodhue become One-Eye?
Is Clearbrook's daughter dead by this time (who's her father? Woodhue/One-Eye or someone else?)
Has Rainsong been born yet? Could she, in the from (shortly after) this story to the attack of Madcoil get old enough to recognize?

End of Starfall, Starrise:

Seen:

Cutter is a young cub.
Skywise and Foxfur are a couple, Skywise still wearing a regular headband.

Logically born:

Nightfall. Isn't she Cutter's closest agemate?
Scouter and Dewshine. Slightly younger than Cutter. Dewshine is "little cousin" to Cutter.
Rainsong. Pretty sure she's somewhere in between Skywise and Cutter in age (if she hasn't already been born by the time Skywise is)

Courrage by Any Other Name:

Seen:

Redmark (later Redlance) and Nightfall are a couple.
Skywise is still wearing a regular headband.

Attack of Madcoil

Seen:

Bearclaw, Joyleaf, Longbranch, Brownberry, Foxfur, and Rain. All dies.
Cutter, Skywise, Dewshine, Scouter, One-Eye, Clearbrook, Treestump, Pike, Redlance, Nightfall, and Strongbow are all part of the 'Kill Madcoil' crew.
Moonshade, with infant Dart, and Rainsong, pregnant with Newstar, remain in the holt (together with Woodlock)

Question:

When did Rillfisher die?]]> http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7837/birth-order-of-the-wolfriders/ Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:27:03 +0000 Redhead Ember http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7810/timeline-quest/
And by full timeline, I mean year 0 is 'Palace descends on Abode, most High Ones get killed, etc.'

And if there's not such a timeline existing...would it be possible to puzzle one out?]]> http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7810/timeline-quest/ Tue, 05 Feb 2013 03:24:59 +0000 Angelalex242 http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7809/do-sunfish-fin-owill-and-the-wavedancers-actually-need-clothes/
Aside from adorning themselves for decoration, modesty, or carrying tools and weapons hands-free, do water Elves really need to wear clothing?]]> http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7809/do-sunfish-fin-owill-and-the-wavedancers-actually-need-clothes/ Sat, 02 Feb 2013 22:07:05 +0000 Trollbabe http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7690/troll-rebellion-triumph-or-tragedy/ I wonder if the trolls had a "Do over" would the rebellion had gone the same way?
On reflection the rebellion seems actually compassionate-the trolls could well have killed a lot of the Coneheads, but chose not to.
In an "alternate history" where some High Ones and proto trolls were able to escape into the Scroll Room (as a panic room) to hide from the humans-I had the trolls range from hardcore mutineers, a few who rebelled out of boredom, and a few who wanted their freedom, but believed that crash landing on a strange planet to get it was a dumb idea.
Any thoughts?]]> http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7690/troll-rebellion-triumph-or-tragedy/ Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:17:43 +0000 Magic_Toenail http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7565/fur-and-leatherwork/ http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7565/fur-and-leatherwork/ Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:30:24 +0000 Trollbabe http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7458/blood-of-nine-chiefs-or-potential-spoilers-from-botc-anthologies/
Also, if the BoTC anthologies are to be believed, Skyfire is not Prey-Pacer's daughter, but Zarhan Fastfire's. We don't know who Wreath's father is, but she obviously has wolf blood, and so is descended from Timmorn at some point, but isn't every one of the Wolfriders? Only starting with Rahnee did the blood get narrowed down to one line of chiefs, but everyone else with wolf blood is still descended from Timmorn. The question is, was Skyfire descended from Rahnee? It seems unlikely, unless Wreath's father was one of Rahnee's cubs who left the tribe to find his own way.]]> http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7458/blood-of-nine-chiefs-or-potential-spoilers-from-botc-anthologies/ Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:46:52 +0000 Jeneva Storme http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7444/how-early/ I know Tanner's mate, Stormlight Recognized so early the birth got very hard on her.
How early for males?]]> http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7444/how-early/ Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:52:37 +0000 DJ Ambient Freak http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7440/willowgreens-trickery-why-the-go-backs-have-no-or-very-little-wolf-blood/ http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7440/willowgreens-trickery-why-the-go-backs-have-no-or-very-little-wolf-blood/ Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:32:37 +0000 Magic_Toenail http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7411/secrets-and-soulnames/ This panel

Had me thinking. If the Sun Folk stopped having soulnames because they forgot how to send, and therefore didn't need to guard their secrets anymore, wouldn't they need them once they re-learned how to send?]]> http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7411/secrets-and-soulnames/ Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:14:27 +0000 Redhead Ember http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7394/the-key-is-inside-the-egg/
Martha was always insistent on her labours, not knowing that all along, she was secretly tending the "backside" of Mary, walking through her forests, climbing her mountains on the new moon.

When Martha ever discovers that all along, the spirit of God she had always longed for had been her sister Mary, then there is a Mark. Thus, Mark is like a little window that has been left as a psychological impression for Martha whenever she remembers that she is also Mary.

This is the "gateway", whereby Martha "forgets". Martha has visions that she passes on to Mary because they trouble her so. Thus, she has become blind out of a sense of worrying. Obviously, this is what has made Mary blind, but since Mary is the Mother of all things, she is really also Martha worrying about her self, and this is God's ingenuous method of passing along dream-visions through a stream of dreamers.

Thus, Mary is not only the sister of Martha, but she is also the mother and her child. Martha is within Mary's O, and Mark holds the key for Martha to remember that she is really all along Mary, suspended in her elaborate dance of creation.

*Special thanks to Two-Edge for the creation and existence of this thread]]> http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7394/the-key-is-inside-the-egg/ Sun, 07 Aug 2011 07:31:26 +0000 Yanclae http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7393/cave-consciousness/
She sleeps in total darkness, and brisk hikers will be spared from her girth if they stay in the bright-snowy forest. The mouth of the cave beckons.

What is waiting for us in the cave? The Cave-Mother offers our spirits the promise of an unending dream. A place where there is no knowledge of death. It is a place where fiction weighs more than fact.

Journeymen who lose their torch light sometimes lose all bearing (prior-knowledge) of freality. When the darkness comes, the shouts into unending corridors may carry far, but there is no guarantee that an"other" will respond.

A person who stays in a cave too long may talk to himself. And when this happens, he may start to wonder if he is the only person in the cave. OR, inevitably, he will start to believe that his Voice comes from somewhere beyond his personality.

He will start to invent the personality of His Mother, or what he understands is the cosmic form of the Mother. The forms he has seen from nature may be re-drawn crudely, but he can no longer tell if he is the only one in the cave, or if another person is shouting back replies to himself. A mirage of sound.

Long ago, when we were as spirits before the fall, we all knew that 'I' as a creature belonged to the same original 'I' as the creation of all life. But when darkness appeared in our souls, the 'we' was forming within God. How 'I' inside every creature could distinguish itself from 'we', was the birth of individuality in the universe.

There was one creature who kept this secret safe for all of us: she is the cave mother, the keeper of all the secrets inside of the egg. Inside of HER egg, there is a flame which purifies all of the discrepencies within the energies of 'WE IS' consciousness. The Cave Mother calls to us within her flame, and each of us has a distinct sense, how that if I wish to see the truth about both my origin and the origin of the entire cosmos, I must become the Cave Mother. I must join my individuality, the individual I that I am into the I of the Cave Mother.

Doing so is a cosmic-sexual-spiritual undertaking. To a certain extent, our thoughts are closely connected to our collective hearing, and this involves "sifting through the darkness" of the cave. Inside, there is 'we is'. The One whose thoughts are the loudest echoes into my thoughts.]]> http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7393/cave-consciousness/ Sun, 07 Aug 2011 06:51:49 +0000 Yanclae http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7376/darts-birth/ http://www.elfquest.com/pubs/EQTimeline.html ) and noticed that it has Dart's birth coming after Madcoil's attack. However, in the Original Quest, in the issue where they are having the howl for Bearclaw in Sorrow's End, when Rainsong says her children weren't born yet, Moonshade says that Dart was too young to know, implying that he was already born but very small. Indeed, she is shown in the flashback ( http://www.elfquest.com/comic_viewer.php?fd=/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ04/_Original%20ElfQuest%20-%204_page=1#_14# ) standing in the hollow of the tree holding what certainly appears to be a bundled infant, while a pregnant Rainsong chats with Nightfall and Clearbrook. So, it appears to me that there is a mistake in the timeline regarding Dart's birth.]]> http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7376/darts-birth/ Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:22:30 +0000 Jeneva Storme http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7339/burial-rituals-of-trolls/
But what I'm most curious about is the trolls burial rituals. Most of this will be guesses of course. But remember that Two-Edge said "where are his bones? My father's bones..."

Some humans in our world has their relatives ashes, while others bury the urn, just to mention some burial rituals. Could it be possible that trolls keep the bones of their deceased loved ones, if possible? Or do you guys think it is just a manifestation of Two-Edge's madness?]]> http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7339/burial-rituals-of-trolls/ Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:11:06 +0000 Dj Immoral Hands http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7284/healing-power/
Obviously, healing would be pretty sweet in the right environment; saving lives, curing disease, saving limbs, soothing troubled spirits...awesome. Absolutely awesome.

In the correct environment, where it can be utilized frequently and properly, in accordance to the (implied) healer's ethics.

As always, I'm going to drag Winnowill into this as an example: to me, her problems with her healing gifts going unused stemmed from more than feelings of uselessness or stagnation. I've been thinking...and perhaps stagnant healing power causes actual physical pain in the healer. Rather like a starving animal's body feeds off of itself, perhaps Winnowill's powers turned on her unless she used them, either causing mental/spiritual pain or physical pain (or all of the above!).

Now I'm not saying that this is something that excuses her- I don't think the hypothetical pain would be so great as to drive her completely. I think her fear of uselessness was also a great factor. The two combined were her motivations for lashing out, and led to depression, self-loathing and resentment of others.

This is all purely conjecture.

TL;DR: Do you think that its possible for a healer's power to start 'eating' at them if left unused for long enough?]]> http://www.elfquest.com/social/forum/thread/7284/healing-power/ Tue, 10 May 2011 21:18:25 +0000 Return of Arill