MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 1795

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) A question if I might
	by Mike Ameden <mindwalker-+AT+-fastbytes.com>
  2) Re: Tam LinIS
	by "Starspirit" <leongly-+AT+-mbox4.singnet.com.sg>
  3) Re: Companions
	by Paige Preston-Walker <ppwalker-+AT+-sympatico.ca>
  4) RE: Tam LinIS
	by "L. J. Thompson" <ljt-+AT+-lclark.edu>
  5) REALLY old braid
	by "Tim & Tiffanie" <tntgray-+AT+-sprintmail.com>
  6) RE: Mindspeaking
	by Sheridan Hoy <tamlin-+AT+-sinesurf.co.nz>

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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 08:42:20 -0600
From: Mike Ameden <mindwalker-+AT+-fastbytes.com>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk
Subject: A question if I might
Message-ID: <199811251513.PAA08238-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk>

Hello all,
	I have a brief question for you......I hope someone here might know the
answer...

I have just completed the 4 books in the Serrated Edge series...and I
wanted know if there is a 5th book...perhaps one is in works....or one is
out....

If not another book in the series..is there another series that has Tannim
and Shar in it??? I know that Tannim has made a brief appearance in another
series....but I would like to know more bout Shar....does anyone know if
she is in any other books??

Thanks 
Mike

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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 21:23:02 +0800
From: "Starspirit" <leongly-+AT+-mbox4.singnet.com.sg>
To: <mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Tam LinIS
Message-ID: <199811251509.XAA05877-+AT+-iron.singnet.com.sg>



>I've started most of my friends out with "Arrows of the Queen." It's
>kind of an odd place chronologically but I think that the trilogy
>explains the idea of companions and heralds far and away better than any
>of the other books. It keeps people from getting confused.


I started with the Mage Winds, and was confused all the way until someone
explained the concept of mages, heralds etc. Since I haven't read many
Misty books, could someone do a recommendation? Hi, I'm Starspirit, and
I'm a newbie - to the list and to Misty books <peeks from behind a sheep...
pleasedontkillmepleasedontkillme> One thing: I chose 'Starspirit' before I
ever picked up a Misty book - do I have to change it? Anyway, greetings
to all, and have a nice day!

Zhai'helleva
Starspirit~**



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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:12:02 -0500
From: Paige Preston-Walker <ppwalker-+AT+-sympatico.ca>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: Companions
Message-ID: <365C2C52.48FF-+AT+-sympatico.ca>

Peter Allen wrote:
> 
> Paige wrote :
> >I've often wondered that myself.  Yfandes says they don't like to use
> >it(the ability to speak to anyone) much, Rolan (in Storm Rising (I
> >think) says it takes a lot of effort, but Sayvil does it all the time.
> >What's up with that?  Although, maybe Sayvil can do it because she
> >was/is a mage?
> 
>    My personal opinion is that Sayvil is as care-free and opinionated >about the Companions having secrets when they shouldn't as she was >opinionated about other things when she was human ;). Imo, Companions >have learned how to, if not lie, then carefully craft their words so >that their Chosen don't find out the truth about them. It takes >outlanders to figure out that they're more spirits than animals. Of >course, that could be them allowing their Chosen to be especially >dense, too *g*. Perhaps on
> 
> ---
Oh, I know Sayvil (like Savil) is a law unto herself.  My main wonder
was that Rolan (who is grove-born, so this should make him special) says
(in Storm Rising) that all the Companions can speak to anyone they
choose to it's just that it takes a lot of effort.  That's why I
wondered how Sayvil could do it all the time, although she is
(obviously) not a grove-born Companion.  Does she not mind the effort or
is it because she is/was a mage?  

-- 
Paige
proud to be Outlandish
(to e-mail double the p and take out the "reston")

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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:27:23 -0800
From: "L. J. Thompson" <ljt-+AT+-lclark.edu>
To: "'mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk'" <mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk>
Subject: RE: Tam LinIS
Message-ID: <01BE1867.9A671EA0-+AT+-ppp-b59.cust.aracnet.com>



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From: 	Starspirit[SMTP:leongly-+AT+-mbox4.singnet.com.sg]
Sent: 	Wednesday, November 25, 1998 7:32
To: 	ljt-+AT+-lclark.edu
Subject: 	Re: Tam LinIS



>I've started most of my friends out with "Arrows of the Queen." It's
>kind of an odd place chronologically but I think that the trilogy
>explains the idea of companions and heralds far and away better than any
>of the other books. It keeps people from getting confused.


>I started with the Mage Winds, and was confused all the way until someone
>explained the concept of mages, heralds etc. Since I haven't read many
>Misty books, could someone do a recommendation? Hi, I'm Starspirit, and
>I'm a newbie - to the list and to Misty books <peeks from behind a sheep...
>pleasedontkillmepleasedontkillme> One thing: I chose 'Starspirit' before I
>ever picked up a Misty book - do I have to change it? Anyway, greetings
>to all, and have a nice day!
>
>Zhai'helleva
>Starspirit~**


Well, the friend who got me started with all of this had me read the Last Herald-Mage books first, and I wasn't overly confused. Of course, by sheer luck, the first "time of Seleny" book I read happened to be Arrows of the Queen, so I was lucky. I think that the key thing to do is to make sure that you read the books in a given bit of the timeline in order, and not to worry too much about the order other than that.
	-L.J. Thompson
	(Sorry I don't have an interesting name, I haven't thought of one yet!)

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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:16:01 -0600
From: "Tim & Tiffanie" <tntgray-+AT+-sprintmail.com>
To: "Misty List" <mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk>
Subject: REALLY old braid
Message-ID: <00d001be18e2$b644f2c0$8eb6bfa8-+AT+-tiffanie>

Hey all!
hope everyone has a good Thanksgiving if you have it, and a great day if you
don't.
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Lost in the mists of time:
<<as a poor college student I also don't
have a clue where I could find dice!! Isn't that horrible? ;-)>>

There are several dice simulation programs on the net for free.  Just track
down one of the RPG games (the GURPS Homepage Character Assistant has a link
to one, if I remember correctly.

************************
Paksenarian rules!  I hated her wimpy stage, but she got better!  There is
also Liar's Oath which is about their patron diety.

**********************
Another lost attribution:
<Someone wrote: Do you think that a really good Healer could actually do
genetic engineering?  Anne McCaffrey had a psionic character who could,
but she is definitely a different writer, and much more inventive about
the use and range of the Talents in her books.>

I think a Healer could do many more things than they do.  It seems to be
limited by imagination (of the healer).  We have an example of fetching
being used to fetch people in Arrows, things that had never been tried
before.  So if the healer imagined that they wanted to change someone
genetically, they don't have to know about genetics, they just have to
imagine the effect. Now there does seem to be some skill involved.
Falconsbane practiced on his daughter before changing himself.  (Which leads
me to believe that Krebain was actually, Leareth's son, as he had many
cat-like changes made to him)  But, Healers don't have to know about
red-blood cells and cellular damage to heal, they just have to know that
they want things put back together and the healing talent does it itself.

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David asked:

>1 a hawk-brother phrase list.  If anyone has created one I would be
interested.

There is a page that has many of the phrases/words, I have a link on my
website (I'm too lazy to go look up the actual page).  Go to
http://homepages.infoseek.com/~dakorillon/dakorillon.html then go to
Herald's Hall after you get to Grayhaven, then go to the Misty pages, the
link can be found there.

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Mike:
>I have just completed the 4 books in the Serrated Edge series...and I
wanted know if there is a 5th book...perhaps one is in works....or one is
out....<

Well, unfortunatly there are only the 4 at present, although there are the
Urban Fantasy books: Summoned to Toourney, Knight of Ghost and Shadows and
Bedlam Boyz (by/with Ellen Guon), which are in the same universe and
actually has events which are mentioned in the other books (such as the west
coast elves moving).  Which are also great.  There is rumored to be another
coming out called "Tempest Fugit" and although there is an album by that
name, we have yet to see the book.

No, there are no other books with Shara in them. *pout*
*******************************

Bright Skies,

Dax the Eternal,
Goddess of Elves and Unicorns, Knight of Fluff, Evangelist of Low Humor,
Councilor of Mist, Mistic Watcher of Continuity
Homepage: http://homepages.infoseek.com/~dakorillon/dakorillon.html
NewbieFest:    http://www.ling.udel.edu/hyde/pers/misty/newbiefest.html



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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 19:48:28 +1300
From: Sheridan Hoy <tamlin-+AT+-sinesurf.co.nz>
To: "'mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk'" <mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk>
Subject: RE: Mindspeaking
Message-ID: <01BE197B.0F41E0C0-+AT+-port46.ts2.auck.sinesurf.co.nz>


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I don't think ability has anything to do with it. Sayvil is just too=20
contrary to pretend she can't. Rolan and the other Companions who won't=20
Mindspeak people who don't have the Gift are playing by a set of=20
unwritten rules. Sayvil is ignoring those rules.


Well I am going to delurk to get into this conversation. If they can =
communicate with their Chosen irrespective of a Gift, then why not do =
it?. However maybe they want their Chosen to think and act for =
themselves and if they all could Mindspeak to their Companions then =
maybe they would be less self-reliant. What does everyone else think?.

tamlin

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