Date sent: Wed, 16 May 2001 07:54:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "Philip J. Moyer" Subject: [Amber/UnS] Kanna - Elven Background, Lian News Tybalt has arrived. Kanna OOCly says, "So, as it turns out, Kanna's got a couple hours to kill in the Royal Library of Amber while waiting for Lian. What a coincedence she has Research to do!" ======================================== ======================================== Kanna seeks out Travis or Anna. You find Anna busy shelving books. "Hello, Princess Kanna." Kanna bows to Anna, looking somewhat wry and sheepish. "Hey there, Anna. I was wondering... could you help me with some research? Mostly elven-stuff, things they might've written down, or grandpa or others after they got brought here." Anna says, "Sure, I can try and help you." Kanna smiles. "Thanks. Basically, I'm looking for stuff about Tuor, son of Beren and Luthien, the High King of the Elves at the time they escaped Beleriand. Also known as 'Menelcamar', who then dropped out of sight. Legends and histories about his deeds, stuff like that." Anna says, "Well, the Elves probably have more than we do, but we do have some books." She shows you to the section with various Elven works. Perusing the books largely tells you what you already learned from Turgon, but with some more background material: In the world of Beleriand, the Valar and the Maiar were sent down by Iluvatar, the creator, to shape the world into its proper state. Kanna nods. "Yeah, but I can't carry the elves to bed with me." *pause* "well, normally." *cough* "anyway." She starts reading. One of them, Melkor, led a rebellion by some of the Maiar, and marred the creation of the world. Besides, background material is always a good thing. He was imprisoned for a time, and then escaped. Then the Elves awoke in the world. The Valar warred on Melkor again, who became known as Morgoth. And imprisoned him again. They sought out the Elves and brought them to Valinor, their homeland. Morgoth convinced them that he had repented and was released. During this time, Feanor, an elf, created three Silmarils, which held within them the light of the Two Trees which illuminated Valinor and the World (for the Sun and Moon did not yet exist) Morgoth killed the Trees and stole the Silmarils. Kanna arches an eyebrow at this, and then winces a bit, and sighs, and keeps reading. Feanor and his followers went after them. Defying the command of the Valar. They marched off to make war on Morgoth. Some elves had not gone to Valinor, the Sindarin elves. Their leader was a king named Doriath. Kanna raises annother eyebrow at that little bit. Doriath had been able to shield his kingdom from Morgoth with the aid of his wife, Melian, one of the Maiar. He had a daughter named Luthien, half-Elf, Half-Maiar Kanna . o O (Oh hoh...) He didn't get along well with the Valinor Elves, but fought along with them against Morgoth for a time. Kanna nods a bit, and keeps reading that funky history.... At this time, men awoke in Beleriand, and some came west, and were drawn into the fighting. One such was a man named Beren, who came from a clan which allied with the Elves. Kanna idly starts making a geneological chart as she reads. Hey, everybody's got their hobbies. He fell in love with Luthien, but her father ordered that if he wished to marry her, he would have to wrest one of the Silmarils from Morgoth. In the way of such things, Beren and Luthien managed this very feat. Kanna awwwws, quietly. Unfortunately, the recovery of the Silmaril led to strife, for Feanor's descendents could not bear to see it in the hands of the Green Elves, the Sindarin. For they had sworn an oath to recover the Silmarils at all costs. Kanna groans. And so the Elves and men warred on each other for possession of the Silmaril. During these wars, Beren and Luthien had a child. Named Tuor. He was raised in the hidden refuge of Gondolin by its King, safe from the anarchy around him. And when Elves and Men had finally all fought to exhaustion, Morgoth sent forth his forces to crush them. Tuor led the armies of Gondolin forth, and rescued as many of the Elves and Men as he could. Kanna . o O (Goooo, Tuor!) Tuor led the refugees east, away from Morgoth's rule, and then found some way, through his Maiar heritage, to use the Silmaril to flee across the boundaries between shadows, leading the survivors into other worlds. Until he vanished. Kanna nods at that part of the story. And there you go. :) Kanna murmurs to herself, "So he grabbed the remainder and the Sil, booked from Beleriand... hm, wonder what happened to the other Silmaril's... they presumably stayed with Morgoth, but then Shaft and co got to him..." She holds off on researching what happened to the other two Sils, instead focussing more on Tuor and his deeds. The books don't say, as they only go up to when the Elves fled, at which point Morgoth still had them. Tuor did many deeds in shadow but which aren't very relevant. I can make them up if you like, though :) A guitar becomes to strum somewhere in the stacks behind you, which is unusual in the Library, which is usually pretty quiet. Kanna purses her lips at that. She decides to shift tangents, moving to purported abilites of the Sils in general, aside from travelling Shadow. Kanna will skip the deeds-in-shadow part, thankyou. and then she pauses, and looks over her shoulder, somewhat on-guard. "Hello?" And then someone starts singing softly. o/~As Beren looked into her eyes... o/~ Kanna pauses, and quiets. o/~Within the shadows/ of her hair/ the trembling starlight of the skies/ he saw their mirrored, shimmering. o/~ o/~ Tinuviel! The Elven-fair!/ Immortal maiden elven-wise/about him cast her shadowy hair/ and arms like silver glimmering. o/~ o/~Long was the way that fate them bore/ o'er stony mountains cold and grey/ through hells of iron and darkling door/ and woods of nightshade morrowless. o/~ ======== ======== You page, "Is the voice familiar? Gabrielle, Madoka, Miki, Mutsumi, Priss?" to Akemi. Akemi pages, "Babby." to you. Akemi pages, "GABBY" to you. You page, "Ah, okay, cool. ^_^" to Akemi. ======== ======== Kanna smiles softly, and gently leans against the nearby stacks to listen to the song. o/~The Sundering Seas between them lay/ and yet at last they met once more/ and long ago they passed away/ in the forest, singing sorrowless. o/~ The guitar fades away. Kanna hehs, quietly, and murmurs down at the manifestation badge. "Good singing, sis." Gabrielle steps out of the stacks behind you. "That is a song in the mode that is called ann-thenath by the Elves. It's hard to render in plain Thari." Gabrielle is wearing an old and faded set of leathers, and has her trump guitar slung ovr her shoulder. Kanna nods. "You did well, though." She sits on the nearby table, and looks wry, down at her little book of notes. "Man, shaft having a kid by Nienna, and him with the potential to be Menelcamar... talk about your legacies." She taps the book. Gabrielle says, "Well, the Elves sing the Lay of Beren and Luthien an awful lot. which by their standards means about once a year." she hops up on the table. "I can't really say I'm surprised about the kid thing, though." Kanna chuckles a bit, too. "Suppose I shouldn't, either, but hey, I grew up with him married to Kasumi and the Leather Knight, and he just hit on people a lot then." She sighs. "Damnit, I wonder how Kasumi's taken this all..." Gabrielle says, "Well, I haven't told her." Kanna says, "Well, I meant shaft's death." Kanna says, "I think announcing the retreival of this kid should wait a bit, save for those I've already told, and mom. Just in case we tank out -on- the retrieval." Gabrielle nods. "Assuming there is a child, and i wasn't just spouting gibberish." She sighs. "I'm never doing that again without at least Nagisa helping." Kanna nods, and squeezes Gabrielle's hand. "Good Pyricorn, I swear you scared a decade off of me, sis." Her hand trembles a bit. "The things fit, and I feel it'd be a good idea to check up on... there's enough auxillary commentary from folks that makes it sound probible. If nothing else, it'll give you and me and Shinobu and Morgan some time to run around and bond." Gabrielle scratches her head. "I've been feeling a bit... odd...since my upgrade. Maybe that's it. Oh, yes." She beams. "I'm very proud of Shinobu's smashing skills." Kanna chuckles a bit. "That's us Harad Women, all right." She then mms. "You mean attuning to the True Jewel? You may want to ask Great-Grandpa about it, then. Or perhaps Uncle Tylor." Gabrielle blinks. "You know about tha- oh, of course you figured it out." She sighs. "It's been an odd couple of months. But anyway." She looks at the books. "Beleriand, huh?" Kanna nods. "Yup. Sailing for the Blessed Realms, the lands of the Valar." ========== ========== Chris pages, "Playing? :)" to you. You page, "Ooo! Cool! You're here! Feel free to wander in... :)" to Chris. Chris pages, "What are you doing at the moment?" to you. You page, "Kanna's talkign with Gaby in the Library... did a little more Menelcamar/Tuor research." to Chris. You page, "To kill time before rendevousing with Lian. :)" to Chris. You page, "Well, also, Gaby -told- her, Merc. :)" to Mercutio. In a page-pose to you, Chris grins. You page, "(back during the jump to mom's Beach House after the Labyrinth.)" to Mercutio. ========= ========= Gabrielle hrrms. "By my calculations.... approximately 726 years have passed there since Shaft went." Gabrielle says, "Give or take. I'm not sure about the differntial." Kanna whistles softly. "So, either things have changed rapidly, or not at all, given the state the place was in -before- they got there." Gabrielle mms. "I think it was a low-tech Shadow." Kanna nods. "Shaft's introduction may have disrupted things, or might not. Give them seven centuries, they might plateau, or manage to break past that. Since hey, some times you just can't figure shadow." She looks wry, and closes up her minidiary notebook before hopping off the table. Gabrielle nods. "The tech barrier is poorly understood." Kanna goes and collects up the books Anna retrieved, and returns them with her thanks. "You just gotta have folks with sufficent... imagination to work around it." She winks. Gabrielle says, "Like here in Amber. I still don't know if high-tech -won't- work here, or if we just haven't got creative enough." Anna says, "You're welcome, your grace." Kanna says, "Well, hey, we've got effective steam power up in the Citadel... but that's a special case." Kanna blushes. "Please, Anna, 'Kanna' works just fine." Kanna says, "Could be that it just got 'set' this way to make it a levelling factor." Gabrielle says, "Mmm. Or Grandpa has a reason for keeping it like this." She pages through one ofthe Beleriand books. "Dwarves, Orcs, Elves, Mad Gods..." Gabrielle says, "If nothing else, we may want to loot while we're there." Kanna nods. "Either way... well, hey, just means we need to be creative." She peers over at that book. "Fun fun fun... Well, I'll keep it in mind. If there's anything -remaining- by that point. 'Come! See historic Beleriand! Don't feed the Balrogs, they're grumpy.'" Gabrielle smiles. "Well, as soon as Lian gets here..." Kanna says, "Then we can head up and have dinner with mom, let her know what we found out today, trump Morgan, make plans, and set out on the morrow, yup." Gabrielle shakes her head. "I miss the halcyon days of my misspent youth. Of course, I almost destroyed Arden a couple times then..." Kanna pats Gabrielle on the shoulder. "Eh, just look at the trip as a chance to vent and unwind. Knowing us, before we get halfway there half the frickin' universe will be after us and will require flash-nukage in the escape attempt." Kanna says, "'sides, Uncle Green would get ticked if we did stuff to Arden." She looks sheepish. Kanna goes, and starts doing the Search For Lian, accompanied by her sister. Lian pokes her head through the door. "Did I hear someone mention nukes?" Kanna asks, "Juuust discussing the possibility, knowing us, Lian. How'd things go with your mom?" Lian comes in and shrugs. "Good and bad. Good, she had some helpful news, bad, none of it was -good- news." Kanna mmms at that. "Joy. Pop up to my rooms, and we'll talk a bit about it before we get called to dinner?" Kanna checks to see how long it should be before dinner with mom. Lian nods, "Here ain't the right place to talk, definitely." Kanna says, "On my end, well... same here, a bit." She grins slightly, and glaces at her sister. "Sis, will you do the honors?" ========= ========= Amber-Morrigan says, "OOC Not too much longer to dinner with Mom time. But it is 120 AM at your end, phil. " Kanna OOCly also napped today. *wl* Amber-Morrigan says, "OOC While I will happily run you into the ground, I dunno if you want to do that :)" Kanna OOCly says, "I'm willing to go until about 2 at the max." ========= ========= Gabrielle plays a few riffs of 'Burning Ring of Fire' on her Trump Guitar, and a gate to Ember spirals open. Gabrielle asks, "Ah, Johnny Cash. Is there nothing he can't do?" Kanna leads the two through to her bedrooms. ========= ========= Damasq says, "OOC: I think Gabrielle would probably prefer the cover by Social Distortion. :)" You page, "Oh, how much Information Society do you know? ^_^" to Mercutio. Mercutio pages, "Just a bit. I _LOVE_ Peace and Love Incorporated." to you. You page, "What a coincedence. So do I. :) and So does Kanna." to Mercutio. You page, "She wants a fight sequecen to that song sometime." to Mercutio. You page, "And "Think" by InSoc might work well for her vs. Ukyou/Inji." to Mercutio. Mercutio pages, "Mmmm..... music. ^_^" to you. ======== ======== Kanna looks at Lian and sits on the edge of her desk. She shucks off most of the travel gear she was wearing, as you don't carry that along to dinner, generally. "So, what's the news?" Lian sinks onto the floor, sitting there crosslegged. "Well, good news is, the Big N is slowly dying in dad's trap. The bad news is, the Big N is slowly dying in dad's trap. His bosses have dropped him, and are looking now for a replacement Herald, as per the Black Heart prophecies, which even give some detail on the candidates." The_Prof pages, "Oh, crap. o.o" to you and Chris. Kanna says, "... oh.... -shit-." Kanna stares. Kanna exclaims, "... nine compete for the prize. Good effing... they're practically holding a bloody -lottery-!" Lian nods, "That's pretty much how I looked when mom helped me figure that part out." Kanna nods. "Guh." Lian says, "Well, more like a competition. He or she or it who manages to bring Carcosa will be the new herald. Not fun." Kanna rubs her neck. "Cute. Really effing cute. Whatever -that- is," and she raises her hands, "And I don't think I want to KNOW, aside from instinctually knowing that it's -bad-." She sighs. Lian says, "Kanna, dear ... you have a talent for understatement." Lian says, "On a somewhat positive note, I got dad's notes on the trap he used on the Big N. I think I can replicate it with a Pattern base." Kanna says, "-cool-." Kanna says, "Oh, and other positive notes... well, in running around downstairs in Arden and elsewhere... I think I've figured out who Menelcamar is, if I'm not totally off-base." Lian nods, "I'm all ears." Kanna grins a bit. "As it turns out, one of the last women Cousin Shaft had sex with before marrying Aunt Kasumi and Aunt Leather Knight was... Nienna." Lian ...s a bit. Kanna says, "Yes, Shaft had an illegit son by a Valar. I'm amazed he didn't have more." Kanna says, "But it -does- fit, and the kid -would- fit the requirements... son of a god and a mortal, sorcery sounds to be a given, and potential to be a warrior as well..." Kanna says, "Of course, we'd need to find and confirm." She looks wry, but grins. Lian says, "Well, I think we were heading that way anyway." Kanna says, "I did some quick research on the history of the first Menelcamar, Tuor, who was the guy who used the retrieved Silmaril to lead the refugees who became the Arden elves out of Beleriand. Then he dropped out of sight, and later grandpa brought 'em to Amber." Lian nods. Kanna says, "But I think we've also got Morgan's support in coming along with us, as Cousin Hiko mentioned that she-he had always wanted to visit Beleriand. Haven't -asked- yet, but I'm good either way. You, me, Shinobu, and sis, and grab a boat along the way, once we're synched time-wise." Lian says, "Sounds good." Kanna considers. "And now that I've rambled enough, let's go and get dinner." ========================= ========================= Kanna OOCly says, "And fork here, I should think? *wg*" Amber-Morrigan says, "OOC Yes, so we don't kill you." Kanna OOCly righto. Later, and we shall resume... presumably soon. *wg* Kanna OOCly waves. Beowulf says, "OOC And what doesn't kill you makes you stronger... :) Seeya, Phil." Lian . o O ( OOC Nitenite. :) )