Rambles and Speculations
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Ooooooh, great call! Haven’t thought of that one.
Wonder if that’s why NO ONE who’s been alive back then even MENTIONS the Concordenax?
Secretly powerful flying octapods? =p~
Where? I meet very few octapods, let alone powerful ones! I gotta meet this guy, maybe he/she will give me a job! Or depending on genital structure, maybe I’ll get lucky! You know how long it’s been since I’ve had a date?
Please! Please! introduce me to said octapod!
[quote=Mikey;3377]
Wouldn’t it be strategically disadvantageous for that kind of objective information to fall into enemy hands?Currently, Lilith can only debrief the survivors who dug themselves out of the mud, since any overwatch would have been ineffective because of the rather surprising weather conditions in Abyss. Any information provided by the survivors would be rather patchy and concentrate on the most notable events.[/quote]
Actually, Tizzy already let it leak that the whole army pretty much got captured, and in THH, it was mentioned that Tom is going to have to adjudicate who gets destroyed permanently, sent packing back to Lilith, and/or is allowed to join the Forces of Doom. So a debrief may be a while.
And propaganda is always useful. A carefully edited balling of the battle could cause all kinds of havoc in several different directions.
So…
To get this straight…
There’s a volcano somewhere on Astlan that’s about to re-awaken with a connection to Mt. Doom? And it could be anywhere in Astlan? Like…say…Freehold? Or somewhere else just as amusing? Like Turelane or Oorstemoth?
Hmm,
Age level…
I am not sure how old Tamarin is, but Zelda, his Steward, mother of Fer Rog is only 27 years old.
If I were to play match maker, I would suggest the two of them hook up since their children both get along quite well and are about the same age. I know Fer Rog sees Rupert as an older brother. And they’re practically the same species, sort of, almost, kind of.
And trust me, Zelda’s one of the Hottest D’Orcs around. Believe you me, she can bench press a D’Orc twice her size, easily. And she has very clean, unchipped ivory tusks to die for!
Yes, Yes, Zelda+Tom would be a great match, therefore I will have to console poor Tamarin. Such is my fate, to be the kind and gentle comforter!
No, I meant that I had already read it once before but didn’t make the connection that time. Maybe I have been in a different time line even before becoming a beta demon, because I don’t recall where or when I read it, just that I had seen it before. *tries to jog memory* ](*,)
P.S. My residence is becoming rather unstable. I wonder why? :-k
Thoughts, Tizzy?P.P.S. Sanity is overrated anyway.
Sanity is an artificial construct designed by ‘the man’ to shackle lesser beings to their will.
It’s much like time in that sense.
It’s kind of funny how written language and in particular printed books, along with more trade “settled” language and slowed down the changes; and given that, one might have thought the Internet and new devices would have done the same; however it’s done the opposite.
It’s accelerated the change. Not just because of texting, but as more and more cultures come in and intermix with each other you get spill over and growth. Plus, etext is not as “set in stone” as paper text.
Chronicles of Astlan will be side stories that interweave with DoA.
As more people come in, and I want to do more back story or related story with them I will put them in Chronicles.
So it may not be so much as a “series” as a “set” of novels that add or expand on the story. I.e. trying to keep the number of PoV’s and that person’s history under control. Not completely sure what/how they will go after the first. The second might be a continuation, or a completely different story because the protagonist of Into The Wild moves into the main storyline for the long haul.
It’s really about sorting out the story and making it easier to follow. I’m trying to cut back on the PoV switching; or at least not make it worse.
So the first one Into The Wilds takes place over in [url=http://www.astlan.net/Home/Cartography/NewEtonia.aspx]New Etonia[/url] and just south of there in “[url=http://www.astlan.net/Home/Cartography/WildsofEton.aspx]The Wilds of Eton[/url]” as they are called.
It starts a bit before book 1 and will intersect either in late book 3 or book 4 (and honestly it depends on when I get it done relative to book 3)
It will give some more background information on the Holy Etonian Empire which is New Etonia + the conquered lands of Natoor and Najaar.
The Wilds are not technically part of the Empire; as they are just too nasty to be worth the effort. However, the Holy Etonian Emperor Rafaestus Torson III is married (4th and longest living wife) to a daughter of what passes for a “ruling” house or clan in The Wilds, House Narthan. Thus his youngest son, Kristof is also in the patrimonial line of House Narthan.
Kristof is 7th in line for the Holy Etonian throne, and fourth in line to the House of Narthan throne; when the current heir dies at the beginning of ITW, making Kristof third in line. Given that the second in line to the throne is a baby (and House Narthan has a horrible record of keeping heirs alive) there is a good possibility that Kristof might get the throne, or end up being regent; so his maternal grandfather Hugart Lord Narthan wants him to come to the Wilds and learn the family “business” or realm or whatever the heck it is.
And it is complex because of course, it’s the wilds and they don’t really control the wilds so much as they have a bunch of fortified city states with a network that runs through the swamp allowing them to export goods produced in the swamp. Many of which have great arcane or alchemical value
Technically, to the outside world, Lord Narthan is the lord of a series of city states, the largest one, Narthan Hold, being almost modern (by Imperial Standards).
So what will we see: Humans, Orcs, Goblins, I’iskatha (nasty nasty), swamp dragons, pterosaurs and “The Rangers of Torean” which are sort of like The Rod but for Torean. Torean is a god of exploration and discovery.
The Rangers (and Torean) are also showing up in Book 3.
As I may, or may not have said (I really don’t remember what is in what book or on this site at this point) it was the Rangers that scoped out Natoor and Najaar and paved the way for the Rod to conquer the lands and remove the Nyjyr Ennead. (Bess, Phaestus, Sekhmet, etc)
SO…as I was saying before, I’m really looking forward to the little stew that’s bubbling in Murgatroy. We have Jenn, Helga, Beragamos, Stevios, The Cloud Crew, Gastropé, Damien, the orc shamans, and the Grand Bitch herself. What a lovely, lovely mess this is going to be.
What if Meat Maker and the rest of Wargtown (or at least a good chunk of them) want to swear allegiance to Tom when Tal Gor walks into town…with Gastropé? Oh, I SO want to see Gastropé explain this!
Speculating about this will be almost as much fun as speculating about what will happen in the Courts when they find out about the battle.
[quote=Tizzy;3674]Which will be explained in Book 3.[/quote]
Well, give it to us straight, like pear cider made out of 100% pears.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd4FfNpYxF0[/youtube]Implants for the Internet????
Who needs those, you don’t see me with any implants do you? It just comes into my head naturally. Sometimes I put aluminium foil on my head to try to keep it out, I assume that is what people call a firewall, however, I don’t get the fire part. It’s aluminum.
Of course what is interesting is that in most of the high tech world, traditional technological communication is limited by the speed of light, so you basically have to warp or jump to get your message to someone.
Which is why so many people use Shamans because they can transcend the speed of light via the astral plane. That is what Trig Bioblast does. He’s basically a communications officer.
Of course, you can create magical artifacts that do this, for example the crystals used by the Destiny and others in the Star Gate “Universe”
Hmm, maybe that’s how I can talk to the internet, I am mind swapping with a computer…hmm…let me check something…yep…”Pentium Inside” I got a Pentium I!!!! That sounds fancy, I bet its real fast!
That could be fun. Get Tom in here, get him audience feed back.
I was a bit miffed by T-A-G’s writing in book 2. His description (or rather the description he forced Tom & Antefalken to give to Damien) completely trivialized my very important discussion in the forums with Rosver about urban architecture in the Courts. He made them imply that they thought I was crazy. I am sure they don’t feel that way.
But yes, having the Internet in one’s head is tiring. That why I wear the tin foil hat. Odd that they call in tin foil when it’s aluminum and not tin. But it keeps Zuckerberg’s damn messenger messages from invading my sleep at Mount Doom.
That is the nice part about Doom. I get to shut off all those stupid voices yelling at me and texting me and posting on my mental timeline. Do you know what it’s like to have some old socialist nagging at you in the back of your mind for $27 like ten times a day? Frustrating!
Of course when I wake up, I’m bombarded by the huge queue that accumulated overnight.
Of course, the best thing is probably my ability to stay in contact with my vast circle of Nigerian princes and lawyers who are working to get me a fortune. At some point my ship is going to come in and I’ll be rich!
[SPOILER]Actually, that is mentioned by Chancellor Alighieri as they prepare to leave. They don’t have any reliable maps of the Abyss, documentation is quite sparse. They take the Inferno up to about 35,000 feet (assuming altitude remains the same in the Abyss–not sure how good that is but…) to very specifically avoid popping up in the middle of the Courts of Chaos. [Or any other local topography or demon hordes]
The assumption, and this is the reason for the alliance is that the priests of Tiernon should be able to locate the only other “Tiernon” attuned source in the Abyss.
Of course, this assumes that Asmodeus’ “guest” a former High Priestess (and beloved of Talarius) is not also lit up as Tiernon Beacon
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[/SPOILER]Latest speculation is that Jar-Jar was actually either the true Sith master behind Palpatine, or his closest advisor/pupil. He did all those Force feats, and was in the background for a lot of Palpatine’s scenes, not to mention that nothing Jar-Jar did in the first movie was actually contradictory to Palpatine’s long term plans.
Personally, I like that idea better than he’s just stupid, yet SOMEHOW manages to bumble around and kill everyone put against him without so much as an injury.
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