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

[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.)