MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 42

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Re: ElvenBlood Description
	by RUNDLE-+AT+-wilma.bcasd.az.honeywell.com
  2) NEW book the Fire Rose
	by J Hulley-Miller <jhm-+AT+-cnj.digex.net>
  3) Re: Authors
	by Anne Cross <across-+AT+-sidwell.edu>
  4) Re: New question...Re: NEED/OATHBOUND/BREAKERS
	by h-wilfehrt-+AT+-nwu.edu (Helen M. Wilfehrt)
  5) Re: ElvenBlood Description
	by Stephanie Wukovitz <steph-+AT+-escher.mbi.ucla.edu>
  6) Bye!
	by Liz Peel <peel-+AT+-htsd.k12.pa.us>
  7) Re: ElvenBlood Description
	by Rosario Holsen-Baker <rholsen-+AT+-sidwell.edu>
  8) A Brand New Question!
	by SBuskirk-+AT+-aol.com
  9) Re: ElvenBlood Description
	by RSulli5938-+AT+-aol.com
 10) Re: ElvenBlood Description
	by Gryfalcon <msowers-+AT+-menger.eecs.stevens-tech.edu>
 11) RE: A Brand New Question!
	by "Thomas, Daria" <dthomas-+AT+-mailsrvr.bussvc.wisc.edu>
 12) Gael Baudino (?)
	by RUNDLE-+AT+-wilma.bcasd.az.honeywell.com
 13) Re: Meeting up
	by Ian MacDonald <ism-+AT+-dcs.ed.ac.uk>
 14) NEW book the Fire Rose
	by Ian MacDonald <ism-+AT+-dcs.ed.ac.uk>
 15) Re: NEW book the Fire Rose
	by Ian MacDonald <ism-+AT+-dcs.ed.ac.uk>
 16) Re: ElvenBlood Description
	by nomib-+AT+-chem.psu.edu (Naomi)
 17) Re: Companions choosing again/Monarch's Own
	by MJGaul-+AT+-aol.com
 18) Re:  New question...Re: NEED/OATHBOUND/BREAKERS
	by MJGaul-+AT+-aol.com
 19) Companions and aging
	by J Hulley-Miller <jhm-+AT+-cnj.digex.net>
 20) A Brand New Question!
	by J Hulley-Miller <jhm-+AT+-cnj.digex.net>
 21) NEW book the Fire Rose
	by J Hulley-Miller <jhm-+AT+-cnj.digex.net>
 22) ElvenBlood Description
	by J Hulley-Miller <jhm-+AT+-cnj.digex.net>
 23) Re: A Brand New Question!
	by Wendy Hill <W.Hill-+AT+-nla.gov.au>
 24) Re: A Brand New Question!
	by Vivian Choh <bi189-+AT+-freenet.toronto.on.ca>
 25) Hello Again
	by SariKr-+AT+-aol.com
 26) Re: A Brand New Question!
	by John Oliver <jdo-+AT+-uow.edu.au>
 27) ADMIN: apologies for slight network problems
	by mel (Melanie Dymond Harper)
 28) Re: A Brand New Question!
	by "Sandy Haas" <SANDRAH-+AT+-rackham.umich.edu>
 29) Re: A Brand New Question!
	by Gyrfalcon <msowers-+AT+-menger.eecs.stevens-tech.edu>

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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 16:36:55 -0600 (MDT)
From: RUNDLE-+AT+-wilma.bcasd.az.honeywell.com
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: ElvenBlood Description
Message-ID: <950607163655.21c0e135-+AT+-wilma.bcasd.az.honeywell.com>


>Hope most of you have air conditioning in this god/ess awfull humidity.

>Take Care
>Matt


Humidity?  What's that <grin>?  All we have is *HEAT*.  Lots of it.
But fortunately, as the virtual state motto of Arizona, "It's a
dry heat".  It's only in the 90's today.  Which is nearly a new
LOW for us at this time of the year.  It should be in the low 100s
by now.

Hee hee.  Welcome to (virtual) Arizona.  Anyone want to have a pool
barbeque?  I'll supply the virtual pool, the barbeque, you bring
your favorite Hertasi, Tayledras, or Herald/Valdemar main course
or side dish.

<I just know Mel's gonna kill me for this one>

Iris

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Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1995 19:24:59 +0000
From: J Hulley-Miller <jhm-+AT+-cnj.digex.net>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk (Ian MacDonald)
Subject: NEW book the Fire Rose
Message-ID: <199506080214.WAA03827-+AT+-cnj.digex.net>

Greetings,

Wednesday June 07 1995 14:20, Ian MacDonald <ism-+AT+-dcs.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> Subject: NEW book the Fire Rose

A new book by whom and in what world ? Tnx

jhm

--
J Hulley-Miller                                         <jhm-+AT+-cnj.digex.net>
____                                                <1:107/330-+AT+-fidonet.org>
\/\/    "Human nature is never so weak as in a bookstore" - unknown

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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 23:19:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Anne Cross <across-+AT+-sidwell.edu>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: Authors
Message-ID: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.950607231730.4963A-100000-+AT+-gateway.us.sidwell.edu>

On Wed, 7 Jun 1995, Naomi wrote:

>         I read _The Gossamar Axe_ by Gael Baudio(sp?), and liked it a lot. 
> I also read Strands of Starlight, and thought it was OK.  I read one of the
> Dragonsword triology and didn't really like it.  Last night I noticed that
> there are other books in the Strands series.  Has anyone read them, and if
> so how are they?  

Depressing, pagan, and well worth reading because of the deep 
understanding of humanity that lurks all the way through them.  However, 
I've talked with a lot of people who didn't like them.  It's not 
comfortable reading, and wehnever I rereadt them, I find that I have to 
spend several hours thinking about what I've read. 

     Anne Cross
   across-+AT+-sidwell.edu


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Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1995 22:50:20 -0500
From: h-wilfehrt-+AT+-nwu.edu (Helen M. Wilfehrt)
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: New question...Re: NEED/OATHBOUND/BREAKERS
Message-ID: <199506080350.AA231613443-+AT+-casbah.acns.nwu.edu>

>
>A question that has been bothering me for awhile now.....
>
>If NEED protects the warrior from magic, and allows that mage to fight
>well, why didn't Keth just give NEED to Tarma when coming down the hill
>(out of Valdemar) so that Tarma could cream the Adept from Raschar's (sp?)
>court? 

Kethry did since weaponry wasn't allowed in the Duel Arcane.  But she chose
to face the adept because she felt she needed to.  Plus it was one way to
prevent that Adept from getting at Tamra and Jarvik (sp?) who were Kethry's
liabilities.  Calling the Duel made the mage focus his attacks only on
Kethry and it allowed Kethry to focus on attacking the mage and not on
defensive maneuvers to protect her companions.

Helen
h-wilfehrt-+AT+-nwu.edu


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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 95 17:04:58 -0700
From: Stephanie Wukovitz <steph-+AT+-escher.mbi.ucla.edu>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: ElvenBlood Description
Message-ID: <9506080004.AA03080-+AT+-escher.mbi.ucla.edu>

Heh heh, yes, here in LA it has been a very nice, cool day :)

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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 07:10:02 -0700
From: Liz Peel <peel-+AT+-htsd.k12.pa.us>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
Subject: Bye!
Message-ID: <199506081410.HAA02913-+AT+-one.htsd.k12.pa.us>

I lose my access for summer tomorrow :-( , so I have to say goodbye  
to this wonderful list and all the nice people on it (doesn't that  
sound sappy?). See you in a few months! Bye!
-Liz

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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 08:30:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rosario Holsen-Baker <rholsen-+AT+-sidwell.edu>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: ElvenBlood Description
Message-ID: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.950608082429.19425D-100000-+AT+-gateway.us.sidwell.edu>

On Thu, 8 Jun 1995 RUNDLE-+AT+-wilma.bcasd.az.honeywell.com wrote:

> 
> >Hope most of you have air conditioning in this god/ess awfull humidity.
> 
> >Take Care
> >Matt
> 
> 
> Humidity?  What's that <grin>?  All we have is *HEAT*.  Lots of it.
> But fortunately, as the virtual state motto of Arizona, "It's a
> dry heat".  It's only in the 90's today.  Which is nearly a new
> LOW for us at this time of the year.  It should be in the low 100s
> by now.
> 
> Hee hee.  Welcome to (virtual) Arizona.  Anyone want to have a pool
> barbeque?  I'll supply the virtual pool, the barbeque, you bring
> your favorite Hertasi, Tayledras, or Herald/Valdemar main course
> or side dish.
> 
> <I just know Mel's gonna kill me for this one>
> 
> Iris
	OOOOOOOhhhh, can I bring a whole stack of Haighlei(sp?) fans? 
Huh? Can I can I can I? And can I shift into housecat form if I promise 
not to clogg your virtual pool filter with fur? Even if I am shedding in 
all this *HEAT*... :-)
	There is some Lackey content to all this. A  bunch of 
Hawkbrother jokes. Sorry in advance to Anne Cross, who thought them up 
with me whilst sunbathing on the blue ramp...sigh. 
	How many Hawkbrothers does it take to change a mage-light?
	1) If they're scouts, they can see in the dark.
	2) If they're mages, they're popular, and do you really need a 
mage light?
	3) If the mage doesn't ground, only one and they last for days.
	
	Sorry 'bout that, but I just finished finals, and I'm still a bit giddy.
		
	--Jaguar-- 

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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 08:38:04 -0400
From: SBuskirk-+AT+-aol.com
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
Subject: A Brand New Question!
Message-ID: <950608083803_65299594-+AT+-aol.com>



Hello again!

There is something I've been wondering about.  What's going to happen in the
future Velgarth books?  (Yes, I know, we're all wondering that.)  It seems to
me that Misty could be working up to one of those David Eddings-type "and
everyone in the universe lived happily ever after" endings.

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Storm Warning Spoiler Alert!
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Suppose Elspeth and Co. manage to find a workable solution to the problem of
the mage storms.  I'm sure that they are going to come in contact somehow,
sometime, with Tremane, the Heir-apparent to the Empire.  Do you really think
that they would withhold that information from him, considering how many
lives it would save?  I can easily see this developing into a situation where
Valdemar saves Tremane's (and the Empire's) bacon, and as a result, when he
becomes Emperor, the Heralds get free run of the Empire, or something along
those lines.

Does anyone else see this as a possibility?  Or am I just up too late again?

TTFN!

~Sandi~

P.S.  In Arrow's Flight, when Talia and Kris are snowbound--why in the seven
hells did they cut the tree in half?  Why didn't they just make _two_ cuts,
and drag out the piece that was across the path, instead of trying to move
half a bloody tree?

 

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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 08:39:35 -0400
From: RSulli5938-+AT+-aol.com
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: ElvenBlood Description
Message-ID: <950608083933_66101321-+AT+-aol.com>

Take heart Iris, I grew up in the south where we had 100% humidity!( No
that's not called rain.)  I grew up hearing 'it's not the heat it's the
humidity.'  I'll bring some iced tea and we can dicusss Lackey by the pool.
 Anyone know when The White Gryphon will be out in paperback?  I'm going
through Lackey withdrawal.  If it's not coming out soon I'll have to recycle
read.

Fly Carefully,
Windweaver
(I'm trying to build a persona)

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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 08:55:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gryfalcon <msowers-+AT+-menger.eecs.stevens-tech.edu>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: ElvenBlood Description
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.950608085246.10301A-100000-+AT+-menger.eecs.stevens-tech.edu>

> 	There is some Lackey content to all this. A  bunch of 
> Hawkbrother jokes. Sorry in advance to Anne Cross, who thought them up 
> with me whilst sunbathing on the blue ramp...sigh. 
> 	How many Hawkbrothers does it take to change a mage-light?
> 	1) If they're scouts, they can see in the dark.
> 	2) If they're mages, they're popular, and do you really need a 
> mage light?
> 	3) If the mage doesn't ground, only one and they last for days.
> 	
> 	Sorry 'bout that, but I just finished finals, and I'm still a bit giddy.
> 		
> 	--Jaguar-- 
> 

Please NO!,  No more! I can't take any more!

--Gyrfalcon


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        Magic still exists.  We have only to reach out and touch it,       
                it is a part of the very fabric of the world.  When our    
                belief of magic completely dies this universe shall die.   
                Because that magic; Hope, Dreams, Love, Beauty, Wonder,    
		Belief, and Discovery are what make us a people. They are 
		all part of a great Art whose workings are still a mystery
		 but whose applications can be seen every day.	    
		If we ever lose the Art  mankind shall not last the day.
		Let the magic that is in us roam free in our work, play,   	
		in each other, and most of all in ourselves.		    
									   
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Date: Thu, 08 Jun 95 08:25:00 cdt
From: "Thomas, Daria" <dthomas-+AT+-mailsrvr.bussvc.wisc.edu>
To: 'mercedes-lackey' <mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk>
Subject: RE: A Brand New Question!
Message-ID: <2FD6FA8A-+AT+-mailsrvr.bussvc.wisc.edu>




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>Suppose Elspeth and Co. manage to find a workable solution to the problem 
of
>the mage storms.  I'm sure that they are going to come in contact somehow,
>sometime, with Tremane, the Heir-apparent to the Empire.  Do you really 
think
>that they would withhold that information from him, considering how many
>lives it would save?  I can easily see this developing into a situation 
where
>Valdemar saves Tremane's (and the Empire's) bacon, and as a result, when he
>becomes Emperor, the Heralds get free run of the Empire, or something along
>those lines.

Yes, but what makes you think Tremane will be the next Emperor?  Remember, 
he gated
 who-knows-how far away from the Emperor's castle(or whatever), and now he 
can't gate back.
 Perhaps he'll just be the next king of Hardorn, and Hardorn and Valdemar 
will be allies.
It looks like the ally countries of Valdemar don't really have Heralds 
swarming into them, so
(unfortunately) I don't see the Heralds expanding past Valdemar.  Just my 
opinion!
     -Daria

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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 7:08:25 -0600 (MDT)
From: RUNDLE-+AT+-wilma.bcasd.az.honeywell.com
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
Subject: Gael Baudino (?)
Message-ID: <950608070825.21c0e135-+AT+-wilma.bcasd.az.honeywell.com>

I'm currently trying Gossamer Axe.  Seems really good so far.
I tried to start Dragonsword (is that right?) but I just couldn't
get into it.  Gossamer Axe just sucked me right in.  If you are
a musician, try it.  It's musical/magical blend is really interesting.

Iris ("Starwolf") - I'm also trying to build my persona right now

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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 15:19:09 +0100
From: Ian MacDonald <ism-+AT+-dcs.ed.ac.uk>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: Meeting up
Message-ID: <17337.9506081419-+AT+-glunimore.dcs.ed.ac.uk>

> 
> 
> On Fri, 2 Jun 1995, Michael Richards wrote:
> 
> > > Hi everyone
> > > 
> > > I was just wondering if anyone in the UK would like to meet up one 
> > > weekend over the summer.  If you are interested let me know.
> > 
> > Sounds good to me - what do you want to do, a mass raid on Forbidden 
> > Planet or something? *grin*
> > 
> > 
> I don't mind what we do.  Would Mel and anyone else interested like to 
> come to Oxford.  Anyone needing overnight accomodation would be welcomed 
> to stay with me.  (That goes for anyone who is ever visiting from the 
> States as well.)  I could write to Lyn Belzer ( I think that is who is 
> coming over) to arrange things.  How does mid July sound.
> 
> Kim
> 
Sorry to come late to this, exams !!!!! 
I'm interest depending on whether I get a job or not

Bye 

Ian
     _/_/_/_/_/     _/       _/      You never get where you
        _/         _/_/   _/_/       want to be only where you need to be
       _/         _/  _/_/ _/        email ism-+AT+-dcs.ed.ac.uk
      _/         _/       _/         
 _/_/_/_/_/ AN  _/       _/ ACDONALD, Edinburgh University, Scotland
			       
    


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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 15:36:12 +0100
From: Ian MacDonald <ism-+AT+-dcs.ed.ac.uk>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk
Subject: NEW book the Fire Rose
Message-ID: <17358.9506081436-+AT+-glunimore.dcs.ed.ac.uk>


I just recieved permission from Baen books to put there covers on line.
So they should start appearing after the next, i.e. after my exams.
I also recived a cover for 
the new book by Mercedes Lackey called The Fire Rose. I don't have a
release date or price but its in hard back.

	Rosalind Hawkins is a medieval scholar from a fine family in
Chicago.  Unfortunately, her 
professor father has speculated away the family money adn dies, leaving
young Rosalind with no forced to cut her education short, she agrees to
go West to take a job as  governess to a wealthy man in San Freancisco.
A boom town in the 1850s, in 1905 San Francisco is the centre of culture
in the new Wesr, and perhaps there she will rediscover a reason for
living,
	But when she arrives at jason Cameron's mansion on a huill
overlooking the Pacific, she discovers that there are no children, not
even a wife, in residence: just the gentleman himself and his enigmatic
manservant. Penniless, Rosalind stays despite her misgivings.Foe the
household is very odd indeed. Despite there being but one servant, the
huge house is immaculate and the food is prepared and served in the most
elegant manner. Oddest of all is the master of the house : Rosalind
never sees hom, but communicates only through a speaking tube, and only
at night. But then... she is happy. For her job in the household is to
read to him: Latin, French, Greek, Greman- and she feels herslf coming
alive once more.
	As for Jason Cameron, through his contact with Rosalind, he,
too, is renewed. An Adept and Alchemist, Master of the Elemt of Fire, he
had attempted the old French werewolf transformation- and bungled it.
Suck in wolf form, over the centuries he had slowly been losing his
humanity. Roslind is bringing it back to him. But when a rival alchemist
offers Roslind the chance to restore her family's fortune in exchange
for Jason's secret, who will she side with? And thne the earthquake
strikes.....


Sorry about posting nothing in the last post. horible mail program!!!

This cover will be the first to go on line somtime after next Friday

bye for now

Ian

Lackey web pages http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/ism/lackey.html


     _/_/_/_/_/     _/       _/      You never get where you
        _/         _/_/   _/_/       want to be only where you need to be
       _/         _/  _/_/ _/        email ism-+AT+-dcs.ed.ac.uk
      _/         _/       _/         
 _/_/_/_/_/ AN  _/       _/ ACDONALD, Edinburgh University, Scotland
			       
    


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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 15:22:00 +0100
From: Ian MacDonald <ism-+AT+-dcs.ed.ac.uk>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: NEW book the Fire Rose
Message-ID: <17343.9506081422-+AT+-glunimore.dcs.ed.ac.uk>

> Greetings,
> 
> Wednesday June 07 1995 14:20, Ian MacDonald <ism-+AT+-dcs.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Subject: NEW book the Fire Rose
> 
> A new book by whom and in what world ? Tnx
> 
> jhm
> 
> --
> J Hulley-Miller                                         <jhm-+AT+-cnj.digex.net>
> ____                                                <1:107/330-+AT+-fidonet.org>
> \/\/    "Human nature is never so weak as in a bookstore" - unknown

Sorry I didn't mean to send it to the list before I finished typing the 
the blurb in the cover, but it is set (I think) our world, and it is by only
Misty



     _/_/_/_/_/     _/       _/      You never get where you
        _/         _/_/   _/_/       want to be only where you need to be
       _/         _/  _/_/ _/        email ism-+AT+-dcs.ed.ac.uk
      _/         _/       _/         
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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 11:43:40 -0400
From: nomib-+AT+-chem.psu.edu (Naomi)
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: ElvenBlood Description
Message-ID: <199506081543.LAA13810-+AT+-portal.chem.psu.edu>


> Anyone know when The White Gryphon will be out in paperback?  I'm going
>through Lackey withdrawal.  If it's not coming out soon I'll have to recycle
>read.

        Try _Reap the Whirlwind_ (w/ C. J. Cherryh sp).  I started it last
night, and am about 3/4 of the way through.  You don't need to read any of
the connected other books.  It's perfect for Lackey withdrawal.  

Naomi


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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 14:29:01 -0400
From: MJGaul-+AT+-aol.com
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: Companions choosing again/Monarch's Own
Message-ID: <950608142858_89883375-+AT+-aol.com>

"Sandy Haas" <SANDRAH-+AT+-rackham.umich.edu> wrote:

>In "Magic's Promise" (book two), Tashir keeps getting referred to as 
>a presumptive Herald.  How does THAT fit in?  His Compainion also 
>sounds a little off balanced--is that just because of the trama 
>surrounding the choosing, the massacre at the palace??


I always thought that was equal to a trainee in more modern times. The whole
training stuff has gotten lots more formalized since Vanyel's time.

--melissa

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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 14:35:51 -0400
From: MJGaul-+AT+-aol.com
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
Subject: Re:  New question...Re: NEED/OATHBOUND/BREAKERS
Message-ID: <950608143548_89889038-+AT+-aol.com>

 Vivian Choh <bi189-+AT+-freenet.toronto.on.ca> wrote:


>A question that has been bothering me for awhile now.....

>If NEED protects the warrior from magic, and allows that mage to fight
>well, why didn't Keth just give NEED to Tarma when coming down the hill
>(out of Valdemar) so that Tarma could cream the Adept from Raschar's (sp?)
>court? 

I thought she did. I remember Tarma rushing the magic circle after seeing the
mage-created creature and reaming the heck out the mage. But, as they had
decided in Oathbound, Kethry had to be allowed to fight her own battles,
Tarma couldn't be wrapping her in cotton and protecting her. And, if he tried
to blast Tarma, realized it failed, then cast something that let him escape,
he would know something was up. They did try to keep Need rather secret.

--melissa


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Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 15:33:13 +0000
From: J Hulley-Miller <jhm-+AT+-cnj.digex.net>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk (Teri Ryan)
Subject: Companions and aging
Message-ID: <199506082000.QAA15990-+AT+-cnj.digex.net>

Greetings,

Wednesday June 07 1995 17:50, Teri Ryan <teri-+AT+-osc.edu> wrote:

>TR> It's pretty easy to assume that they can also use same node energy
>TR> to increase their life span, as do mages.

In 'The Last Herald-Mage' Trilogy, the implication is that Companions age at
whatever rate thier choosen do. I think thats reinforced in 'Arrows of the
Quenn' (Jadus and his companion).

jhm

--
J Hulley-Miller                                         <jhm-+AT+-cnj.digex.net>
____                                                <1:107/330-+AT+-fidonet.org>
\/\/    "Human nature is never so weak as in a bookstore" - unknown

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Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 15:37:29 +0000
From: J Hulley-Miller <jhm-+AT+-cnj.digex.net>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
Subject: A Brand New Question!
Message-ID: <199506082000.QAA16001-+AT+-cnj.digex.net>

Greetings,

Thursday June 08 1995 13:43, SBuskirk-+AT+-aol.com wrote:

>S> why in the seven hells did they cut the tree in half?  Why didn't
>S> they just make _two_ cuts, and drag out the piece that was across
>S> the path, instead of trying to move half a bloody tree?

Axes blunt. People recover.


jhm

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Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 15:38:24 +0000
From: J Hulley-Miller <jhm-+AT+-cnj.digex.net>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk (Ian MacDonald)
Subject: NEW book the Fire Rose
Message-ID: <199506082001.QAA16043-+AT+-cnj.digex.net>

Greetings,

Thursday June 08 1995 16:10, Ian MacDonald <ism-+AT+-dcs.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

>IM> Sorry I didn't mean to send it to the list before I finished typing the
>IM> the blurb in the cover, but it is set (I think) our world, and it is by
>IM> only Misty

>From the previous posting, it doesnt sound like her type of story... ??

jhm

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Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 15:36:01 +0000
From: J Hulley-Miller <jhm-+AT+-cnj.digex.net>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
Subject: ElvenBlood Description
Message-ID: <199506082000.QAA15996-+AT+-cnj.digex.net>

Greetings,

Thursday June 08 1995 00:22, URAMESS-+AT+-aol.com wrote:

>U> I hope that somewhere in the continental US it is COOL!

You can rule-out the NorthEast :<

jhm

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Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 08:33:01 +22303754 (EET)
From: Wendy Hill <W.Hill-+AT+-nla.gov.au>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: A Brand New Question!
Message-ID: <Pine.3.05a.9506090859.C22795-b100000-+AT+-email.nla.gov.au>

On Thu, 8 Jun 1995 SBuskirk-+AT+-aol.com wrote:

> 
> 
> Hello again!
> 
> There is something I've been wondering about.  What's going to happen in the
> future Velgarth books?  (Yes, I know, we're all wondering that.)  It seems to
> me that Misty could be working up to one of those David Eddings-type "and
> everyone in the universe lived happily ever after" endings.
> 

I can't really see the 'David Eddings syndrome' coming.  But I can see the
Anne McCaffery technological change coming.  Going from a fairly pastoral
society to an industrial one.

I'll still read ML if this happens, same as I still read AM's stuff.  I
enjoy it but get a little disappointed when great technological leaps occur.

Wendy


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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 21:46:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Vivian Choh <bi189-+AT+-freenet.toronto.on.ca>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: A Brand New Question!
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9506082119.B10568-0100000-+AT+-bloor>

On Thu, 8 Jun 1995 SBuskirk-+AT+-aol.com wrote:

> Hello again!
> 
> There is something I've been wondering about.  What's going to happen in the
> future Velgarth books?  (Yes, I know, we're all wondering that.)  It seems to

I'm kinda worried that the future Velgarth will be void of "magic" and 
mages.  All along while I was reading Storm Warning, I kept thinking that 
somehow the "wild" magic would run its course, wreak havoc magically all 
over the world and but also destroying it while it did run its course (is 
ANYONE getting the gist of my message?  I seem to be having problems 
expressing myself today  -- I think it's the elections...the bozo's in 
this province have picked a party which has practically promised to raise 
tuition fees and to hit research funding even worse that it already has 
been hit!!  GRRR!!!!)  Anyways, I see a horrible future (as a fan of 
sci-fi/fantasy) where the rogue magic becomes the explanation for why our 
worlds are "non-magical".   Somebody convince me that I'm wrong!!  I need 
some good news..

Glum and extremely broke, and about to become more so...


Vivian Choh					"I am all that I claim to be.
bi189-+AT+-freenet.toronto.on.ca	     I simply have not claimed all that I am"
				  		  - M. Lackey, "Oathbreakers"


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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 22:18:09 -0400
From: SariKr-+AT+-aol.com
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
Subject: Hello Again
Message-ID: <950608221807_67034333-+AT+-aol.com>

Heyla,

I just wanted to say hello I believe the last time I posted something on this
list it was during the rounds of introductions, soon after my hard drive
crashed and I was without a computer until just last monday.  So to all that
I sent e-mail to I apologize if I never answered you.  It will take me a week
to catch up on all the mail generated by this list but it is great to see it
still growing strong.

              (totally happy Herald-in-training)   Sari Kr

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Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 15:36:13 +1000
From: John Oliver <jdo-+AT+-uow.edu.au>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: A Brand New Question!
Message-ID: <199506090536.PAA00349-+AT+-sprite.cc.uow.edu.au>

>From: SBuskirk-+AT+-aol.com
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> Storm Warning Spoiler Alert!
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> Suppose Elspeth and Co. manage to find a workable solution to the problem of
> the mage storms.  I'm sure that they are going to come in contact somehow,
> sometime, with Tremane, the Heir-apparent to the Empire.  Do you really think
> that they would withhold that information from him, considering how many
> lives it would save?  I can easily see this developing into a situation where
> Valdemar saves Tremane's (and the Empire's) bacon, and as a result, when he
> becomes Emperor, the Heralds get free run of the Empire, or something along
> those lines.
> 
> Does anyone else see this as a possibility?  Or am I just up too late again?
> 
> TTFN!
> 
> ~Sandi~
>  

It might almost be the other way around - Tremane saves Valdemar. My
reasoning is that they are going to need a LOT of mages to handle the
coming waves. The only place that seems to have plenty of mages is
Tremane's army. So I'm guessing that Valdemar will approach Tremane,
tell him about the waves and form an aliance.

John     

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Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 11:13:52 +0100
From: mel (Melanie Dymond Harper)
To: mercedes-lackey
Subject: ADMIN: apologies for slight network problems
Message-ID: <9506091013.AA15732-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk>

Apologies for the quiet moments from the listserver from about 8pm yesterday
(UK time) until this morning. Demon, my service provider, were having network
and DNS problems, which meant that mail was taking a lot longer to deliver and
hence overloading the machine at this end somewhat. I shut down the server
process until that was fixed, which it hopefully now is.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled list traffic.

Cheers

Mel.

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Date:          Fri, 9 Jun 1995 09:05:51 EDT
From: "Sandy Haas" <SANDRAH-+AT+-rackham.umich.edu>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: A Brand New Question!
Message-ID: <9E34BA07A1-+AT+-rackham.umich.edu>

A new (and possibly stupid) related question.
Does the guy(?) who wiped out the Herald-Mages and Vanyel have 
anything to do with what is going on in current books (Storm set)??
And why wasn't Vanyel concerned about identifying more mage-gifted
potential trainees before he got wiped out??  I know they were all 
concerned about the attrition(sp?) and no replacements, but why 
didn't he go OUT and LOOK for them??  Were they just leaving it up to 
the Companions, and they chose for some reason not to be replacing 
the Herald-Mages??  I suppose it could be because the 'plain' Heralds 
were being thought of as being less than wonderful, but they had 
recognized that problem and were trying to deal with it.
I'm rambling..I'm sorry, I'll stop =}

> Date:          Thu, 8 Jun 1995 13:46:05 +0100
> Reply-to:      mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
> From:          SBuskirk-+AT+-aol.com
> To:            sandrah-+AT+-rackham.umich.edu
> Subject:       A Brand New Question!

> 
> 
> Hello again!
> 
> There is something I've been wondering about.  What's going to happen in the
> future Velgarth books?  (Yes, I know, we're all wondering that.) 

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Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 09:08:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gyrfalcon <msowers-+AT+-menger.eecs.stevens-tech.edu>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: A Brand New Question!
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.950609085533.15813A-100000-+AT+-menger.eecs.stevens-tech.edu>


On Fri, 9 Jun 1995, Vivian Choh wrote:
> > 
> > There is something I've been wondering about.  What's going to happen in the
> > future Velgarth books?  (Yes, I know, we're all wondering that.)     

> I'm kinda worried that the future Velgarth will be void of "magic" and 
> mages.  All along while I was reading Storm Warning, I kept thinking that 
> somehow the "wild" magic would run its course, wreak havoc magically all 
> over the world and but also destroying it while it did run its course (is 
> ANYONE getting the gist of my message?  

> Anyways, I see a horrible future (as a fan of 
> sci-fi/fantasy) where the rogue magic becomes the explanation for why our 
> worlds are "non-magical".   Somebody convince me that I'm wrong!!  I need 
> some good news..

It seems to me that the mage storms are "reversing" themselves.  All of 
the havoc that occured during the years following the destruction is 
reoccuring, but in reverse.  I think I remember that somebody mentioned 
that this started after Falconsbane/Maar/Learth's death, and I have the 
feeling that what's happening is a "setting of rights. And magic just may 
well return to it's original form, or at least the way it was before the 
Mage Wars.  
	Who knows.  
It might even be very amusing to find that the Tower had reappeared in 
the middle of a Shin'a'in encampment, or that some fisherfolk end up 
stranded on the highest pinnacle of Maar's old palace.

I don't think we have to fear that magic will leave anytime soon.  It 
makes life just too damn interesting.


Just my $0.02

--Gyrfalcon



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        Magic still exists.  We have only to reach out and touch it,       
                it is a part of the very fabric of the world.  When our    
                belief of magic completely dies this universe shall die.   
                Because that magic; Hope, Dreams, Love, Beauty, Wonder,    
		Belief, and Discovery are what make us a people. They are 
		all part of a great Art whose workings are still a mystery
		 but whose applications can be seen every day.	    
		If we ever lose the Art  mankind shall not last the day.
		Let the magic that is in us roam free in our work, play,   	
		in each other, and most of all in ourselves.		    
									   
			Let it roam free or it will die.		  

			 
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