[owleye]

me wat did i say? :confused: i bet you lie all the time i dont lie too much i just tell the truth usually

[peter_gia]

omg if u can do it just SHOW US!!!!!! and quit arguing!

[Gemini]

wow, that just backfired spectacularly .... :D

[owleye]

sorry i said sometimes :D

[alison]

Hey Alison. i was wondering where u got your names from because i've been reading "Kushiel's Dart" by Jaqueline Carey adn there are names that sound mysteriously like "Gent" and "Lirion" and stuff?

~ Tari

Hi Tari - there's an answer earlier in this thread about how I make up/distort names. But I certainly haven't read Kushiel's Dart, so Jacqueline Cary must have pinched mine :) But these things happen... I was very cross when I saw that Phillip Pulman had pinched the name Thorold, which I actually made up when I was about 10.

1. Sorry to bother you but after sitting through a philosophy lesson about Plato's realm of the forms..... (anywho....) i wondered what the bardic and human ideas in pellinor about death are. Do they believe you go to another place or you just cease to exist?

Hi Celebrian - what an interesting question! The Bards do believe in an afterlife. They speak about another realm "beyond the Gates". Souls travel across the sky (they call the Milky Way something like the Path of the Dead), through the Gates and into the Shadow realm. Ardina is notable because she has been there and returned.

2. Oh yeah i have just reread Rachida in the gift and realised that Ardina refuses to say the Landrost's name. Why is this?

Basically because she despises him...

3. Is it possible for the Elidhu to have offspring? And if so is it with humans and/or other Elidhu?

Yes: but the only offspring we know about are from unions with human beings (among them, some ancestor of Maerad's). In Thorold, the Lamedon seems fairly notorious - somebody mentions in The Riddle the local tales of women disappearing into the mountains and returning years later leading a little child with strange eyes.

Just wondering after reading this does Hem's power have anything to do with his elemental blood? Do we know that he actually has elemental powers? -even though it isn't as strong as maerad's

does his power have to do with healing because in the sample chapters he seems at home doing that

Hi Alasse and Owleye - it's a little hard to talk about, without giving too much away. But these are acute guesses. Hem Bardic power isn't a patch on Maerad's, but he has another kind of Gift, and it is to do with Elemental magic. And yes, Owleye, healing is something Hem can really do...

[soon2b_author]

Alison, I posted this on the "poetry in Pellinor" thread, but then realised it should have gone here:

Does "the Ice Witch yet troubled the world" (Cadvan sang this at :confused: ... Innail, I think) also have somthing to do with the Ice Witch's importance in Maerad's life and the outcome of this war?

[Tari]

thanx Alison. i thought something similar was asked earlier but i found it after i posted da question.

~ Tari

P.S. you published ur books after Jaqueline Carey so your theory of her taking ur names isn't possible.

[alison]

Hi Tari - it was a joke. I should have put a smilie in probably... Like when I say that a poet who was born before me (Neruda, say) pinched my lines, when I've found the same line as one of mine in a poem I've never read, but was written way before mine. In which case, people are going to say that I took the idea from that source, when in fact I didn't. It sometimes happens that writers have the same or similar ideas without ever hearing of each other. In fact, it's more common than you might think...

[Celebriän]

2. Oh yeah i have just reread Rachida in the gift and realised that Ardina refuses to say the Landrost's name. Why is this?

Basically because she despises him...

Why does she despise him?

Oh yeah what instrument/ musical ability does Hem have? Is he an amazing musician? (don't know why but i just think he will be.....)

[Alassë]

Thanyou for the last reply it was really helpful, so basically Hem has a power that we know isn't from his Bardic powers but from the elemental power he posses although different from maerads they can be just as strong

Just wondering does the music that the Bards play hold any real power? or is it just a way of expressing lore of the Light and the Dark?