EQ Readthrough: Issue 4, Wolfsong

[elf]

Issue 4: Wolfsong
Questions for this issue:

• How often do you think they hold a howl and exchange stories?
• Could they have used a different method to take out Madcoil?
• What new insights do you think Leetah had about the wolfriders?

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.

(Side Note: Sorry sorry sorry. The week got busy for me. Apparently, I should set up some kind of auto-reminder email or something like that. I will post the next readthrough post on Monday, not tomorrow, to give this one a bit of time.)

Comments

[mab_browne]

I recall some discussion earlier about how the female Wolfriders weren't so active, and I believe that it was Wendy Pini referencing this particular event, which must have been tremendously traumatic, even allowing for the Wolfrider's resiliency. The Wolfriders fully understand the way that reproduction works and if you read the extended editions, before he died Rain was experimenting with trying to 'force' children outside of recognition. Plus I imagine that WaRP were still working out some of the finer nuances of the elfin society as they got into their stride.

[ciaan]

In the issue of, is it Hidden Years? that tells the story of Skywise's birth, his mother was captured by humans when she was pregnant and the tribe barely got the baby back. During that story Bearclaw says that he will never again allow his females to fight against humans. So they hunt and fight other things, as we see with Madcoil and the zwoots and so on, but they don't go against humans, such as when they rescue Redlance. Also, that means that when they raid the Sun Village, they are treating them as humans. Of course, that story was published ages after the original quest, so it may not have been what WaRP were thinking in 1979, but still.