Elves: Q & A

Elves: Q & A

1. As far as we know, the order of succession has gone as such: Gilliandor --> First Queen (contested) --> Sillestor --> Giliander the Bold --> Mirallinae --> Valdimanthor. Was Giliander the Bold the only Emperor during the Gwaridorn Dynasty? And was Mirallinae the first queen of the Twathedilion?
2. The capitol of the Dar Khelegur was Caras Gallinon, that of the Twathedelion was Forgalliost.
Did the Gwaridorn found a city?
3. How did the Dar Khelegur come to unleash the Blood Curse, and create the Minotaurs under the Gwaridorn Dynasty?
4. Two ancient libraries are mentioned, one in Forgalliost and one in Cair Halldoran.
Ummm...I forgot my question, but he answered it.
EDIT: Oh, yeah! What exactly did the Elves keep in these libraries, that Malorn found so interesting in the ancient library of Cair Halldoran? He dodged THAT part of the question, heh.

Alexei

The Big M:

You see? A lot of that V:tM stuff is a little hokey or over the top, but the themes are nice and crunchy.

As for the questions, you're gonna have to give me a little slack. The crunch is here, and it's all over me. Come March I may be able to breathe a little easier.

A few quick thoughts:

1) Elvish dynasties (given their lifespans) are not nearly as lengthy as Human ones - three kings in 2000 years is perfectly reasonable. That said, I'm pretty sure Mirallinae was NOT the first queen of the Twathedelion. She was probably the third monarch or so after the parting.

2) Yeah, the Gwaridorn need a capitol, and I expect it would be quite a bit like Immryr. What its name is I haven't divined yet, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if it was an early ground zero of the Chaos invasion.

And further on - the Dar Khelegur did a lot during the Gwaridorn dynasty, but that doesn't necessarily make them in charge, per se. They were the Gwaridorn's equivilent of the Manhattan project - the Gwaridorn leadership tried to crack the Titans conventionally, that didn't work, and then some crafty wizard said "dear emperor, perhaps there is another way." When finally presented with the plan, Gilliander said do it. The Gwaridorn kept the Ice Lords in line, and the Ice Lords were willing to do a lot to prove that they were still a valuable part of the Empire.

About libraries: I would expect the Elves started writing stuff down for the sheer joy and beauty of it way back at the beginning, because Saedron told them the real power was in words that stay. After the Dragon, however, I expect many Elves moved to try to preserve the memory of all that had been lost, and keep it alive in an uncertain future. They learned what mortality is, and so they started keeping records. I expect, given the War of Flames, Scourge, and the rest, that the library of Aerynth was almost like Asimov's Foundation Project - a fallout shelter designed to preserve a nucleus of Elvish civilization against some future doom.
Too bad it didn't have thicker walls.

More later!

M