Creative Exercise: The Sovereign Dominion of Eyros

[Rystil Arden]

Nicely summarised, and since you were just collecting material from other posts about these characters, it gets around the contribution limit (since it isn't new, just extrapolated). I like the qw spelling on Jal-qwuin too, but the Jal-guin spelling on page 3 on the thread is the original, if i recall correctly.

 

[Abisashi]

Nicely summarised, and since you were just collecting material from other posts about these characters, it gets around the contribution limit (since it isn't new, just extrapolated). I like the qw spelling on Jal-qwuin too, but the Jal-guin spelling on page 3 on the thread is the original, if i recall correctly.

The original post (#115, as far as I can tell) refers to Ja-qwuin twice; in the first paragraph she is called Jal-guin, and in the second she is called Jal-guin. The post is copied into the collection with both spellings in it, but the sentance order is re-arranged and Jal-qwuin appears first.

Fate Lawson was the original poster, so we should probably just ask him.

Waiting for five other people to contribute is killing me .

 

[Tonguez]

In Jal-qwuin's entry, their are two spellings - that one and Jal-guin. I prefer Jal-qwuin, but either way we should choose one.

Perhaps one is the Low Eyrosian spelling and the other the High Eyrosian (translated from pictographs obviously)

As to Tellas I was going to suggest that even the emperor doesn't know of her name but since Abisashi has established that the emperor does I'll suggest that

"each emperor knows Tellas in a different form and it is this ephemeral nature that has allowed her shadowy mission to continue undetected for so long"

(ps that counts as a submission - and one sentence as per the original guidelines too)

 

[Abisashi]

Nevermind - I'll let people deal with this later.

 

[Abisashi]

(ps that counts as a submission - and one sentence as per the original guidelines too)

After quoting the rule discussing post length, I immediately made one of the bigger posts. I'm a bad boy .

 

[Abisashi]

Your idea is better

As to Tellas I was going to suggest that even the emperor doesn't know of her name but since Abisashi has established that the emperor does I'll suggest that

"each emperor knows Tellas in a different form and it is this ephemeral nature that has allowed her shadowy mission to continue undetected for so long"

Actually, I like not having even the emperor know Tellas's name. Perhaps Tellas is just the name she goes by with this emperor? Or do you think it would be better if the emperor is never told a name for her?

 

[Rystil Arden]

Actually, I like not having even the emperor know Tellas's name. Perhaps Tellas is just the name she goes by with this emperor? Or do you think it would be better if the emperor is never told a name for her?

Ooh, make it so nobody knows her name: even more mysterious, leaving emperors wondering about the truth of the "Nameless Mask."

 

[Tonguez]

Actually, I like not having even the emperor know Tellas's name. Perhaps Tellas is just the name she goes by with this emperor? Or do you think it would be better if the emperor is never told a name for her?

I'd say never told her real name - it could be that Tellas is an archaic elf word meaning something like 'shadow' it was used in the Imperial oath originally as a title (The Tellas) rather than a name

and calling her the Nameless Mask is way kewl

 

[Rystil Arden]

I'd say never told her real name - it could be that Tellas is an archaic elf word meaning something like 'shadow' it was used in the Imperial oath originally as a title (The Tellas) rather than a name

and calling her the Nameless Mask is way kewl

That works and fits nicely too. Its just a flavour choice of whether you have no name at all or a false one.

Edit: As for the Nameless Mask, thanks! I just got the idea and realised it sounded pretty cool as I thought it up.

 

[Abisashi]

Combining

Ooh, make it so nobody knows her name: even more mysterious, leaving emperors wondering about the truth of the "Nameless Mask."

I'd say never told her real name - it cold be that Tellas is an archaic elf word meaning something like 'shadow' it was used in the Imperial oath originally as a title rather than a name but as language has changed and the Oath altered this fact has been lost.

How about when the emperor asks/is told what to call her (by the previous emperor, when the new one is introduced), she just giggles (like a littlle girl) and says, "call me Tellas." Tellas is an archaic elven word meaning, approximately, shadow, though as most of the old elven lore was destroyed in the conquest this is unknown to the emperors. Direct questions as to her name are met with a shrug and, "Tellas will do." Orders and threats do not sway her to say any more.