EQ Readthrough: Issue 2, Raid at Sorrow's End

[elf]

LINK: Issue 2: Raid at Sorrow's End
Questions for this issue:

• What did you find most interesting about the trip through the desert?
• How could the raid have been prevented? What would have changed?
• What did you think of the display of healing powers?

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]

       

I'm hoping that if I push myself to make a few icons for every issue, I'll gain some skill with GIMP, and get a better idea what makes a really good icon. Also, hoping to inspire other people to make better icons, and/or to think about how the pictures change when they're taken out of context. (I don't actually have any great affinity for Redlance or Nightfall; they just keep showing up in terrific iconable poses.)

Meta:
I think Wendy hadn't yet sorted out what recognition was, and still tangled it with notions of romance and love. Cutter talks about having his heart stolen; we don't find out until much later that recognition is a physical drive rather than an emotional one.

There's a few other oddities in the logic in this issue... Leetah saying to Cutter, "please don't let them kill Rayek," followed by her shock that Redlance's wounds were deliberate. Perhaps by "deliberate," she sensed that they were intended as torture, rather than just being intentional strikes, which she'd presumably seen before when people were angry with each other?

[dancing_serpent]

Maybe that moment of recognition is somehow too intense for him to be able to make a difference between love and lust.

On the other hand - he talks about having his heart stolen but in the moment when he meets Leetah's eyes for the first time it says "and Cutter suddenly knows a different kind of thirst". I think that's very much indicating a physical drive.

Yes, that part confused me, too. That's not the only contradiction, too, when it comes to the Sun Fulk and violence. Hm, have to think a bit about that - there's no clear picture in my mind yet.

[anke]

It might be a cultural thing. The Wolfriders just seem to expect that a recognised couple is meant to be lifemates.

I see a similarity between that and real-life attitudes - Hollywood and other modern media telling us that love/lust at first sight is "true love" that's meant to last forever.

[dancing_serpent]

Hollywood and other modern media telling us that love/lust at first sight is "true love" that's meant to last forever.
True! Very annoying, that.

[anke]

Also, as to the violence bit... It seems odd when you have read more of the comics and seen what big deal an elf killing another elf is later, and you re-read this and see Treestump suggesting Strongbow should maybe shoot Rayek before he can cause trouble.

[dancing_serpent]

Yes, that. Also, Leetah says "Please don't kill Rayek". Why does she do so if the concept or hurting someone deliberately seems so alien to her?

[blnchflr]

I just battled Gimp to create an EQ icon - and then I battled it some more to try and create another one, which included free-hand drawing and what-not. Then I remembered I have no artistic skills and decided to be happy with the first one :oD

So how's Gimp/you going?