Goldforge's travels
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Golinar leaned back against the earthen bank and sighed. To his right, Selune was rising, the nearby stars blotted out by her luminescence. Down by the camp fire someone was talking in their sleep. All the Vilquari were bedded for the night, only he remained, puffing on his pipe.
What were they dreaming of? Do creatures such as they dream? What were they, anyway? Alien brains in humanoid hosts. What does that make them? If their minds were illithid, but their hearts human or elven, which side of them would gain final dominance? It was easy enough to think of them as their apparent races, they were mostly adept at concealing the more controversial parts of their natures. But would they one day heed the call of their creators, the abominable enemy of all thinking beings?
How did they think of themselves? Clearly, they acted with all the idiosyncrasies and foibles of their host bodies. Their manifest personalities were clearly conditioned by what they had been before being tampered with. Did some part of their original souls remain in their blood, their guts, their hearts? Golinar was staking much on the hope that this was so.
“Just think of the conversation tonight with the elves”, he mused. “’If you dwell too much on the past you drown’, they had said. With all their long lived years, elves seem to inhabit one long day, with little of the turmoil and change of the passing ages registering. Like butterflies are they, gloating in the sunlight. Not so dwarves. We come of the stone, remain close to it, and like them we remember everything that shaped us. The melting heat, the cracking cold, and the quakes have made us strong, and this is why we so little fear the day we return to the earth. We just become more of what we already are: durable, resistant, unfalling.”
What a typical conversation between elves and dwarves it had been. This and similar topics must have been debated in ancient days in the court of King Lightshiver, when in Phalorm both races lived side by side and prospered. And now once more elves and dwarves walked the ruins of that kingdom, working together to heal the rift that the illithid wrought.
“Wait”, he thought, “elves? Well, as long as they act like elves I will think of them that way. In the end, we are what we do. That is all that matters.”
What were they dreaming of? Do creatures such as they dream? What were they, anyway? Alien brains in humanoid hosts. What does that make them? If their minds were illithid, but their hearts human or elven, which side of them would gain final dominance? It was easy enough to think of them as their apparent races, they were mostly adept at concealing the more controversial parts of their natures. But would they one day heed the call of their creators, the abominable enemy of all thinking beings?
How did they think of themselves? Clearly, they acted with all the idiosyncrasies and foibles of their host bodies. Their manifest personalities were clearly conditioned by what they had been before being tampered with. Did some part of their original souls remain in their blood, their guts, their hearts? Golinar was staking much on the hope that this was so.
“Just think of the conversation tonight with the elves”, he mused. “’If you dwell too much on the past you drown’, they had said. With all their long lived years, elves seem to inhabit one long day, with little of the turmoil and change of the passing ages registering. Like butterflies are they, gloating in the sunlight. Not so dwarves. We come of the stone, remain close to it, and like them we remember everything that shaped us. The melting heat, the cracking cold, and the quakes have made us strong, and this is why we so little fear the day we return to the earth. We just become more of what we already are: durable, resistant, unfalling.”
What a typical conversation between elves and dwarves it had been. This and similar topics must have been debated in ancient days in the court of King Lightshiver, when in Phalorm both races lived side by side and prospered. And now once more elves and dwarves walked the ruins of that kingdom, working together to heal the rift that the illithid wrought.
“Wait”, he thought, “elves? Well, as long as they act like elves I will think of them that way. In the end, we are what we do. That is all that matters.”
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Pure gold.“’If you dwell too much on the past you drown’, they had said. With all their long lived years, elves seem to inhabit one long day, with little of the turmoil and change of the passing ages registering. Like butterflies are they, gloating in the sunlight. Not so dwarves. We come of the stone, remain close to it, and like them we remember everything that shaped us. The melting heat, the cracking cold, and the quakes have made us strong, and this is why we so little fear the day we return to the earth. We just become more of what we already are: durable, resistant, unfailing.”
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Like your avatarCloudDancing wrote:Pure gold.
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+1CloudDancing wrote:Pure gold.“’If you dwell too much on the past you drown’, they had said. With all their long lived years, elves seem to inhabit one long day, with little of the turmoil and change of the passing ages registering. Like butterflies are they, gloating in the sunlight. Not so dwarves. We come of the stone, remain close to it, and like them we remember everything that shaped us. The melting heat, the cracking cold, and the quakes have made us strong, and this is why we so little fear the day we return to the earth. We just become more of what we already are: durable, resistant, unfailing.”
"like butterflies are they, gloating in the sunlight"
"we become more of what we already are: durable, resistant, unfailing"
i think you nailed down much of how i view the two races
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Another picture from the tale of Golinar now in full colour. Somehow Gwylla has yet again mysteriously made it to the front of the image:
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Token torch bearer, Argos, photobombing the dwarves during their Underdark honeymoon.
(They are married, right?)
(They are married, right?)
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Not yet. Maybe Bam could officiate?
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Super great.
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Fighting an illithid in the underdark. Argos and unnamed dwarven rebel in the background. And, I guess, Njall in recumbent position.
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"Whaaat's the deal with these adventurers?"
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Ok, so Argos and Aseel deserved a little more camera time.
Rousing the six thousand Forgotten Ones in Xanictoll.
Rousing the six thousand Forgotten Ones in Xanictoll.
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Good one! Can totally recognize the vantage point from prior to the Xanict's tower. Nice.
I suspect mean face to one side would be Aseel.
I suspect mean face to one side would be Aseel.
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Argos has a nice beard.
Great drawing, TA!
Great drawing, TA!
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