| From: | John Fox <johnf@*****.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Ancients |
| Date: | Tue, 2 Nov 1993 16:09:17 -0600 |
> probably around in the 4th age. But why have you decided that Laverty
> is a Spike baby, from the info in the novels he seems to know a lot
> about what is going on. Also in the TT he's mentioned as having contacts
> with those elves who don't follow hermetic or shamanistic styles but
> follow passion. We later learned that it may not be passion (though the
> Laughing Man's comments made me wonder) but rather the way and path
> found in the Tir Na Nog.
All right. I was just speculating. All elves are not immortal. Certainly
many of the european elves on the council probably aren't immortal. The
fact is, we don't know who's immortal and who's just real old. I'm
guessing Sean Laverty is an Irish name, so it makes sense that he might
have friends into the Ways and Paths. If he himself practices them, he
might be a reincarnation of some other elf. Reincarnation is part of the
Ways and Elves. Then again, he could be 6000 years old.
> The other comment is Urdli, now he's a strange one. The main info on
> him is found in the third book of the Secrets of Power. Here it's
> implied that he's some sort of guardian of the stone and it's secrets,
> yet he doesn't seem to be that powerful for a magican. Sure he's
> powerful but Verner got him with a spirit for a while and the wage mage
> of Renraku said that he was only about grade 6. Doesn't sound like the
> kind of power you would need to be an ancient elf.
I don't know anything about the skills of wage mages, but in Never Trust
an Elf it was implied that Urdli was mega-powerful, at least better than
Glasgian Oakforest, who's no slacker himself.
>I don't know much about Shiawase, but I always thought they were either
>Japanese, Amerind, or Elven.
They're Japanese. I was suggesting adding that they were Japanese dwarves.
It's a family corp.
John Fox
johnf@*****.edu
