MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 285 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: Iftel by Becky Anne Christensen 2) Re: Newbie!:) by Becky Anne Christensen 3) Queen's Own by Becky Anne Christensen 4) Tylendel by Becky Anne Christensen 5) Re: Yesterday by Gyrfalcon 6) Re: Queen's Own by Dalisair1-+AT+-aol.com 7) Re: Tylendel by Dalisair1-+AT+-aol.com 8) hello! by Catherine Osborne ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 13:27:30 -0800 (PST) From: Becky Anne Christensen To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Iftel Message-ID: On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Joshua Jones wrote: > At 09:58 AM 12/31/95 GMT, you wrote: > > When are we going to start hearing more about Iftel? I was made > >extremely curious in Storm Warning when Karal had to cross the Iftel > >border, it almost seemed sentient. I have heard very little about Iftel > >in all the books I have read. To me it was almost like a much, much > >stronger version of the vrondi that the Heralds use. It could examine him > >and label him as a priest, just like the vrondi can tell the heralds. It > >has puzzled me for a long time. If anyone knows anything, or even has > >other ideas, I would love to know them. > > > > (:*BECKY*:) > > > > > > > > Seems to me that Iftel is Misty's fallback... If and when she runs out of > storylines for books, she still has a full undiscovered and unexplored world > with which to keep us rapt with facination... She's made it mysterious > enuff that it will do just that... > > - Shadow-Lover > ----- > A sociopath with no restraints can become anything... Ammorality frees her > to be universally perfect, a charming chameleon with a scorpion's tail... > - Color of Night > > That's a really good idea, it's already eaten me up with curiosity! (:*BECKY*:) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 13:26:18 -0800 (PST) From: Becky Anne Christensen To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Newbie!:) Message-ID: > >Hi there! > > I don't stereotype anyone. I make my own judgements! I am 24 years old and > I don't know very many people who like Mercedes either! That's why I > started looking on the internet. I have read Magic's Pawn, Promise and > Price, By the Sword, Oathbound, Oathbreakers and I am now reading Arrows of > the Queen. I just found a library that has most of Mercedes Lackey's books > so I am very excited to get to the rest! Vanyel is my favorite character. > He made me wish I had a friend like him! I am trying to get my step-mother > to read the Magic series so she'll let my step-sister read it. She is 12 > but a very advanced reader. She's already reading books I had to read for > college! > > Well, > write back soon! > Kristy > > I think my favortie would have to be Talia, or Dirk. I can't wait to find more books about them. Too bad that she can't write the books as fast as I read them! (:*BECKY*:) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 18:10:44 -0800 (PST) From: Becky Anne Christensen To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Queen's Own Message-ID: Okay, the book says that when the current queen's own dies, the companion goes out and usually picks another herald to be the new queen's own. BUT aren't the herald/companion bondings for life? Wouldn't the new queen's own old companion die? Do companions die of old age? Or only if their herals does? Because if the queen's own died, and the companion picked a new one, then that one died, and the companion didn't, it could be hundreds of years old. Or, if the queen's own companion dies, would the queen's own die as well? (:*BECKY*:) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 18:12:26 -0800 (PST) From: Becky Anne Christensen To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Tylendel Message-ID: Okay, in Magic's Pawn, when Tylendel dies, he is buried as a full herald, but in Magic's promise, they say he was repudiated. If he was repudiated by Gala, then why would he be buried as a full herald? (:*BECKY*:) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 21:28:10 -0500 (EST) From: Gyrfalcon To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Yesterday Message-ID: On Sat, 30 Dec 1995, David J. De Riemacker wrote: > While I'm here, what are your New Year's resolutions? Please don't ask. You're better off not knowing. --Gyrfalcon (Whose was just able to finally access his account after a power surge knocked out the local electron lines.) =======================msowers-+AT+-menger.eecs.stevens-tech.edu=================== 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. ============================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 04:01:59 -0500 From: Dalisair1-+AT+-aol.com To: beckyanne-+AT+-iforge.valleynet.com, Mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Queen's Own Message-ID: <960102040156_104170507-+AT+-emout04.mail.aol.com> As a grove companion such as the Queens own companion ALWAYS is, they have (I gather) altogether different rules. In Arrows of the Queen Rolan Was the companion of the former Queens own. They also state in the book that if the Companion or the Herald falls the other finds a new Bondmate (A new Queens Own like Talia or a new Grove born Companion). But your observation is true in thinking that the death of a companion or the Herald is usually Fatal to the other. Also remember that Talia relises that Roland is PROBABLY the source of the wisdom that she suddenly posseses when she councles the Queen (in Arrows). With a raging headache hoping that made sense. Robert ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 04:07:51 -0500 From: Dalisair1-+AT+-aol.com To: beckyanne-+AT+-iforge.valleynet.com, Mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Tylendel Message-ID: <960102040751_104172124-+AT+-mail02.mail.aol.com> God Becky do you always come up with all the hard questions? Tylendel was burried with full honors because he was not in his right mind when he did what he did. He was overcome with rage and grief that was eating him from the inside out. If I rember correctly he commited suicide once he relised what he had done (jumped didn't he?). All blamed themselves for not relising that he was slightly unstable. (Slightly? Well I do have a gift for understatement...) Still with that Migraine, Robert ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 11:33:19 -0500 (EST) From: Catherine Osborne To: mercedes lackey list Subject: hello! Message-ID: Well, as earlier noted, I'm back from holidays. Happy new year, everyone! I have a recommendation to make: a woman named Janny Wurts is in the process of writing a five-book sequence called The Wars of Light and Shadow. It's very well written with great characters. Also unique in that the Master of *Shadow* as opposed to Light is the hero of the piece. He bears some resemblence to our Vanyel, except with a few more contradictions. Arithon (the hero) is great! They also feature a well-defined language, some bards (Arithon is a musician), wonderful Sorcerers, and a lady-love. Not to mention a bloody rivalry between townfolk and the exiled nobility, currently living in the forest a la the Aiel from Robert Jordan and to a lesser extent the Shin'a'in. Anyway, if ;you have $5 to spend, go find "Curse of the Mistwraith" and its sequel "Ships of Merior" ("Warhost of Vastmark" is coming in January. How will I make it?) I\/ Catherine Osborne "After great pain, I\/ Sundancer a formal feeling comes." I cosborne-+AT+-sidwell.edu --Emily Dickinson I http://www.sidwell.edu/~cosborne/ ------------------------------ End of MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 285 *********************************