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Lord Karsus
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 Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 18:18:40
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Originally posted by TBeholder
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Originally posted by Lord Karsus
-No, I get that. That's why I used a credit card analogy: When you use one card to pay off another card (using a retcon to remove past retcons), the debt is gone on that one card (the first retcon), but the "baggage" still exists (the implications and continuity problems that resulted in the first retcon randomly being removed without explanation), in the form of debt on your new card.
...and if this isn't done the problem isn't very likely to just somehow go away on its own either.
-It depends on what the 'problem' is. Some would be easier to fix than others. With this one, with 'Elves' and 'Eladrin', it's pretty damn convoluted. |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
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Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 21:11:23
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I have fixed that problem - see any thread where I talk about Elves.
For instance, the Goblin one I posted in just yesterday.
'El' = "children" in High Sylvan (Hamarfae). It can also be use to mean 'unfinished'. The El (offspring) of the Fey (LeShay/Sidhe) are mortal, because they were born after death came into the world. The original Fey are all immortal (but can still be killed), because they were born before death into the world (as were all the Creators).
El'Ves = "Loyal Children" in High Sylvan. These are the ones that stayed behind in Faerie and pay homage to the Yuir (archfey/deities).
El-Adrin = "Wayward Children" in High Sylvan. These are the ones that left (for socio-political differences) and chose to found their own kingdoms outside of Faerie, but still within the Feywild.
S'El = "Honored children" in High Sylvan - those of the 'first blood' (first generation born after the fey left the mortal world behind).
Darine = "Deity" - those with the power to rule over others.
S'El-Darine = "Honored Children in-charge", or simply, "blood of a royal line".
'Goblin' is a human term, originally meaning 'ugly elf'.
Through a quirk of fate (or perhaps hubris mixed with discontent), most of the original (more powerful) offspring of the Fey left Faerie - Titania's Kingdom - to found their own realms, including her own children. It was the 'lesser' (weaker) bloodlines that mostly stayed behind and continued to honor (worship & follow) their forbears.
Someday I'll have to publish (probably on the web) my entire fey language. It, in turn, is based upon the Language Primeval, which is based upon the Music of the Spheres (the mental language of the Elder Gods). The Black Speech would be the corrupted form.
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
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Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 23:02:02
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| -The semantics are flattened out, but it doesn't address the core of the problem, the merging of two different races into one (Eladrin and Sun/Moon/Star Elves), and the split of one singular race into two (Sun/Moon/Star Elves, and Wood Elves). |
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