OQ Readthrough: Issue 1, Fire and Flight

[elf]

LINK: Issue 1: Fire and Flight
Questions for this issue:

• What did you most notice about the humans?
• How do the trolls compare to cave-dwellers in other fandoms?
• What do you think of elf/troll relations? (Not those relations, you pervs; what do you think of their social arrangements?)

Main OQR post with prompt questions
Note: These aren't mandatory questions; they're meta prompts. If you don't care for any of them, or want to tangent from them to some other topic, that's fine too.

Comments

[elf]

Cutter's influence by Bearclaw doesn't explain why the men get mostly weapon or activity names, and the women get mostly passive "nature" names.

This is toned down later, and I like to think that maybe the Wolfriders have been forced into the position of "women care for the family, especially the kids," by their bare-survival lifestyle. (I know what I'd like to think is probably not what influenced the naming choices.)

At some point, I want to put together a full list of names of all the characters. But that's a long-term complex project. There's a partial list at Wikipedia, covering the main characters, but I'd like to scrounge through all the issues & novels (we'll pretend I can find a copy of the novels) for character names, and see what patterns show up.

[dancing_serpent]

Yes, we kind of start into the series like that. But the names of the wolfriders are changing all the time depending on the circumstances, don't they? I remember Redlance got his name awarded after saving Bearclaw - before that I think he had a less martially sounding name. Something simply after the colour of his hair? I don't remember all that well. Sunstream became Suntop, and One-Eye wasn't always One-Eye, too.

maybe the Wolfriders have been forced into the position of "women care for the family, especially the kids," by their bare-survival lifestyle.
That makes kind of sense to me, though. *g*