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 Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 9:19 pm
"It's possible, I mean they've been isolated for so long who knows what's going on in the Four Lands since that struggle ended? There came to being other races, so it's not like the idea is far fetched."
Of course she never did managed to find out when the Humans were created. Apparently Aragost had been traveling during the time Humans came to the Four Lands and Sir Valdemar wasn't quite sure neither.
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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 9:22 pm
"Though that makes me wonder," Shiro mused, "how many wars could they have been in since they came here? Thousands and thousands of years ... and if there are no other races, and they are not very numerous - Kelirahc said that they are only a small village - then there is a chance that they might never have fought before ... ever."
Fear of other races, distrust, hatred, anger ... for these people, it could well be nonexistent!
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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 9:29 pm
"And what is there to fight about?" Lin nodded thoughtfully, "If memory serves all the wars to a certain extent has to do with power or race, or both. Race isn't an issue here, everyone became the same, and power is evenly dispensed over several people, the elders."
They were a village and their resources were great, and Lin could name several other reasons why it was possible they had never fought in the way those who had lived in the Four Lands did.
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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 9:32 pm
"It would also explain why Kelirahc has no weapons," Shiro added. "I mean, he has a knife, but it's so small ... I bet he only uses it for cutting up fruit and such. And I haven't seen any large animals yet, I wonder if they might also be vegetarian ... Kelirahc didn't eat any of the meat at breakfast, I noticed, though I didn't really think anything of it ..."
It seemed that they may have stumbled upon something of a utopia - something Shiro had always been told could never exist.
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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 9:37 pm
"I was about to ask about wild animals, but," she glanced at Kelirahc's mark, "If they all or most of them have marks like that, they're protected from animals for the most part.... Though I didn't realize it until you mention it about his eating habits."
Of course it was better not to eat too much meat, but even in the Four Lands they supplied some of their food with meat. The more Lin thought about it, the more she thought Kelirahc was going to have a lot to adjust to.
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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 9:40 pm
"It's all just speculation," Shiro shrugged. "I mean, perhaps we can ask once we get there ... but it's worth looking into." He shifted uncomfortably. "I just hope no one's in a rush to leave this island," he murmured. "It's paradise ... and there's so much to study. Earendil needs to map it out, and that might take a while, and I want to study these people and the land, and write as much as I can about it."
He looked over at Lin. "Are you sure you don't want to learn the language?" he asked her anxiously. "I know you promised Aragost, but ... these people obviously speak it, and they haven't been making all sorts of strange things happen ... and it will make things a lot easier for you ..."
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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 9:48 pm
Lin actually had thought of that, Aragost wanted the language to simply die out, because he felt it was dangerous. Which, in retrospect she should have questioned if anything had happened. It was after all, despite being the tongue that created the world, the tongue that was part of the elven history. Which hinted to her that something must have happened.
Unfortunately she had been a child when she first made that promise, and hadn't been in the mind to think that.
"I've been thinking about that myself," Lin murmured, "I'm sure his original reason was so that the language could just die out. In the Four Lands it might as well be a dead language, only a handful of people in all three countries know that language. Of course with these people here, it's not going to die out any time soon."
It still wasn't large compared to the whole elven population but this language was a part of these people now, and nothing was going to change that.
"Also.... thinking back on it, I think Aragost knows something. I think... there's a possibility someone or someones abused that power in the past. I can't think of why I think of this now only that he seemed so.... scared, worried.... something I can't quite pin down."
She shrugged a bit.
"Give me time, I don't know yet."
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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 9:50 pm
Shiro nodded. "If you decide that you want to learn," he murmured, "I'll be here for you."
He chuckled. "I'll be teaching Leyenda and Celeb anyways. And Earendil, if he wants to learn. I asked him last night, but I think he was too tired to answer, he didn't say anything."
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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 9:58 pm
Lin nearly hit her forehead with her palm she had forgotten about that.
"Damn.... I forgot, Earendil said he wouldn't learn it.... because of me."
That was another reason to really learn the language, it wasn't fair to Earendil that he couldn't learn because she couldn't. Seriously, she wouldn't mind if he learned without her, she was perfectly fine with that.
"He always seems to be pulling back because of me," she muttered.
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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 10:01 pm
Shiro cast a sideways glance at Lin, but he didn't comment on her remark.
"I guess that explains why he didn't answer," he said instead. "But I didn't press the matter. I won't bring it up again to him, I don't want him to feel pressured. His word is his bond, he won't break it for anything."
He chuckled softly. "I guess I shouldn't pressure you either, then. I guess I just feel comfortable enough with you to do that."
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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 10:06 pm
Lin smiled at that, of course she had gone to Shiro several times in the past. Mainly when she had been trying to fast track her education, she was always in a hurry when she was younger. Then again how could she not be? She didn't like to keep people waiting.
"I'm glad... I think," Lin chuckled, "We'll see how things go."
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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 10:12 pm
"I guess that's how it's going to be for everything," Shiro murmured, thinking of all the things that they would have to see how they went. There was of course their meeting with the elders of the Night Elves ... Kelirahc's relationship with Leyenda ... how Haldia would react to their presence again ... how they would be accepted by the general population ... whether or not Lin would want to learn the language after all ... whether or not Earendil would learn it ... and there were so many other things, it almost made his head spin to think about it.
It wasn't much longer before they arrived. It was, as Kelirahc had told them, a small village: there were only a few dozen grass huts standing in a large clearing. For a moment, Shiro wondered why they hadn't seen them from the air; but then he noticed that their roofs were not grass, they were large leaves from the trees: from the air they would have simply looked like trees.
Near each and every hut was a firepit, and there was one fire pit in particular that caught Shiro's eye. It was massive, and had a large pile of wood in it, as if it were being prepared for a bonfire.
He found it rather unsettling, however, that despite the obvious fact that there would be at least a few dozen elves, there wasn't any movement at all. Nothing stirred. Even the breeze did not reach here.
"It's creepy," he muttered quietly, feeling the hairs on the back of his neck prickle with anxiety.
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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 10:17 pm
"It's the day time," Lin murmured, "Though I do admit it is unsettling to see a quiet village in the middle of the day."
Though they were to be fair use to seeing people up and about during the day. It was the day, which meant sleeping time really, but it was too quiet for Lin.
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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 10:20 pm
Most of the group seemed unsettled, in fact. Arwen kept looking around uneasily, and Roydon put one arm around her shoulders and drew her close, holding her protectively. Shiro still felt prickles on the back of his neck.
Kelirahc of course felt nothing out of the ordinary, and Leyenda had seen it before, so it didn't bother her very much.
Rhea's reaction was completely different.
"It's so peaceful here," she murmured, smiling warmly as she looked around. "It's ... the most peaceful I've ever felt ..."
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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 10:22 pm
Lin relaxed at that, because she was pretty sure that was Rhea's gift talking. Of course with Rhea's gift if there was trouble she would be the first to know, in which Lin thought it was pretty silly of her to get all tense over a ghost village.
It was sleeping time as it were, she shouldn't be that freaked out.
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