EQ Readthrough: Issue 3, The Challenge

[elf]

LINK: Issue 3: The Challenge
Questions for this issue:

• What do you think of the Sun Villagers?
• How do you think the challenge wand came about?
• Did you think the challenges were fair, and fairly won?

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

[eldriwolf]

I figure the "Soulmate chant" was *just* the first bit.
In this case the challenge was for "right to court". There might be Other reasons to challange..

No requirement that she Accept the courting .
... I thought the stuff startin "maiden" was made up for this event,
Any human bard could do that so it would be Easy for Savah to give a nudge to our girl


I personally always thought that recognition had something to do with "Gonna have one or more Children with this one"... Kids being so rare in elf lands, the spirits of 'elves to be', 'take a hand' in getting themselves born, to make sure their parents hook-up.
And you might be "fated to have kids" with more than one.
If that is so, you might, (over the course of a *fabulously long life* end up recognizing more than one partner


I seem to remember *Some* elves as being polly--- so perhaps there is Multi-recognition, too.

I am personally certain there are gay elves, we just don't *see* them yet

[anke]

No requirement that she Accept the courting .

I think that was an attempt to salvage a fundamentally sexist concept at least a little. Ehwell.

... I thought the stuff startin "maiden" was made up for this event
Assuming the Challenge Wand is meant for general situations of rivalry, and Savah made up or chose the stuff dealing with Recognition from a woman's perspective to fit the situation, might make sense. Earlier, before the Sun Folk went all agrarian pacifists, a ritual safety valve to defuse rivalries might have been useful.
(Or we could just blame it on "worldbuilding as the story progressed, rather than up front" ;))

I personally always thought that recognition had something to do with "Gonna have one or more Children with this one"...
Yeah, that's canon, apart from the bit that in the comics, it's one child per recognition, so if one pair of elves has more than one child, they recognised more than once (excluding twins).

If that is so, you might, (over the course of a *fabulously long life*) end up recognizing more than one partner.
That's canon, too; I know it's mentioned in Wolfrider.

I seem to remember *Some* elves as being polly--- so perhaps there is Multi-recognition, too.

Do you mean polygamous?
You don't need Recognition for that. I can offhand think of four "couples" of three elves each, and the two of them that involved Recognition had it just between two of the elves involved. (Not naming them because I don't know how far you've read and if you mind spoilers.)

I am personally certain there are gay elves, we just don't *see* them yet
There are no gay elves, all elves are pansexual.

[arcanetrivia]

I am personally certain there are gay elves, we just don't *see* them yet
There are no gay elves, all elves are pansexual.

Although as far as what we actually see depicted, it's a while before there's any specific same-sex activity, IIRC. (possibly counting the Go-Back "orgy" as it's been sometimes called *chuckles* but I mean in the context of couples or threes.)

[isis]

I read a few of the letters at the back of some of the issues during my recent online re-read, and in the answer to one, Richard Pini specifically says that there are no gay elves - but that many of them enjoy pleasure with either sex. He also made some extremely negative comments about Kirk/Spock fanfiction either in that or another response (I forget).

There are two canonical three-matings that I know of, one MMF and the other MFF; there is also a case of MM lovemates although one of them Recognized and sired a child.

[blnchflr]

He also made some extremely negative comments about Kirk/Spock fanfiction either in that or another response (I forget).
Well, he sucks, then!