MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 1924 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Werehunter! by ShadowDreamer 2) Cultural Question by Jim Gray 3) Re: Cultural Question by "Tanya Evans" 4) Fluff/about gifts by Gisela Vazquez ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 22:22:03 -0700 From: ShadowDreamer To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Werehunter! Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990403222203.0069f900-+AT+-mail.geocities.com> For anyone who doesn't know, and forgive mie if this is old news, there is a new collection of Mercedes Lackey's short stories out. The collection is called Werehunter, which is also the name of the first story, which is set in Andre Norton's WitchWorld. I'd seen most of the stories in other places before, but there were a few that I hadn't. The book is out in paperback, at least here in Colorado, for $6.99. ISBN 0-671-57805-7. Among the other stories are "Stolen Silver" (Alberich's Choosing), the SKitty stories from Cat Fantastic, and "Satanic, Versus." I also enjoyed the last two stories in the book, "Grey" and "Grey's Ghost," and I rather wish she'd come out with a series or at least a full-length book based on them. Cheers! ShadowDreamer Known to one and all as ShadowDreamer, formerly MorningStar Mindmate to the tawny eagle Ryia! Co-leader of the Order of Unsung Heros (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9763) morningstar-+AT+-poetic.com dawnrain00-+AT+-aol.com http://www.netcom.com/~wiegand/kris (my page) http://www.netcom.com/~wiegand (Wiegand family homepage) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 15:25:55 -0400 From: Jim Gray To: LackeyList Subject: Cultural Question Message-ID: <3707BCC3.E8C914AC-+AT+-altoona.com> Heyla, all! As one who has, as far as Misty books go, read _only_ the LHM and Mage Wars series, I have what to most of you is probably a really dumb question. Are the Tayledras descended from the Kaleda'in? There are sooo many clues to that possibility: the birds, the Native-American-analogue type of culture, the similarities in some of the language... I realize that to those who have read every word Misty has ever written about Velgarth this may be an obvious thing, maybe even something that was explicitly revealed in another book somewhere. But I'm limited in what I've read of the Velgarth cycle so far, so it's not something I want to just assume. Thanks! And bunny-delivered chocolate-peanut butter meltaway sheep to all! (with mint jelly-bean lambs!) -- Jim Gray "People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people." -Terry Pratchett, "Maskerade" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 18:06:22 -0400 From: "Tanya Evans" To: Subject: Re: Cultural Question Message-ID: <000601be7ee7$605b64a0$23040618-+AT+-cb809508-a.baycty1.mi.home.com> To answer your question simply, Yes they are related. The exact nature of this relationship is covered in "The Mage Winds" Trilogy (Winds of Fate; Winds of Change; Winds of Fury). It's much to involved for me to go into at this time, and I don't want to ruin it for you should you get a chance to read these wonderful books. -----Original Message----- From: Jim Gray To: tlevans-+AT+-home.com Date: Sunday, April 04, 1999 4:00 PM Subject: Cultural Question >Heyla, all! > >As one who has, as far as Misty books go, read _only_ the LHM and Mage >Wars series, I have what to most of you is probably a really dumb >question. > >Are the Tayledras descended from the Kaleda'in? There are sooo many >clues to that possibility: the birds, the Native-American-analogue type >of culture, the similarities in some of the language... > >I realize that to those who have read every word Misty has ever written >about Velgarth this may be an obvious thing, maybe even something that >was explicitly revealed in another book somewhere. But I'm limited in >what I've read of the Velgarth cycle so far, so it's not something I >want to just assume. > >Thanks! > >And bunny-delivered chocolate-peanut butter meltaway sheep to all! >(with mint jelly-bean lambs!) >-- >Jim Gray > >"People who didn't need people needed people >around to know that they were the kind of >people who didn't need people." > -Terry Pratchett, "Maskerade" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 19:17:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Gisela Vazquez To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Fluff/about gifts Message-ID: Rainstar shakes a light layor of dust acumulated from her weeks of lurking off herself as she steps from behind a columb in the hall of mist. She gives her list sibs a sleepy smile and stretches. Interesting topics been flying around here but as usual life intruded or to be more honest reports, presentations and projects intruded as well as family upsets which had me not much in the mood to discuss much of anything but now things are calmer and I can sit down and compose a nice little message. So saying she waves a flock of sheep over who in their egerness to come greet her nock her down, thankfully she antisipated something of the sort and a large, fluffy, sheep-shaped pillow appears as she falls. Laughing marily she makes room on the pillow for the sheep and starts responding to the topics that are around sorry don't have a name for this but it's so interesting to think about- "what if there were a strongly gifted child in valdemar so strongly gifted and whose gifts were so active that she/he had to become a herald simply in order to learn how to control them but who had a completely improper mentality for one? would some poor companion choose him/her in the hopes that (s)he could be changed?" I think maybe after the mage storms a tallented person could be centanywhere to be trained. Before the storms though, I think a gift was triggered by the companion bond, right!? Still probably is in most cases. I think the dangerous gift to leave untrained was the mage gift which allowed the person to work magic though any untrained gift is dangerous. Look what happened with moondance! He killed his lover in a fit of rage jealousy? all unmeaning to. THIS was the mage gift working and not a mind magic though don't have the book to check. it's in mpawn somewhere if any one wants to look. Umm, where was I now!? Ok anyway, I think people gravitate to haven if they're needed. I aoq I think it is where it says that Roland had to go far to find a queen's own which was unusual because the people needed usually gravitated to haven or around it not making it necessary for the companions to travel far to find their partners. Maybe that applies to those not meant to be heralds in that they don't gravitate towards haven. Maybe they would even leave valdemar because companions put up with a lot of inperfection? from their heralds who are only human. Ist all I have to say? Guess so. There were other stuff I know but my fingers decidedffdeleat things.zhai'helleva ------------------------------ End of MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 1924 **********************************