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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ulorian - Agent of Chaos" data-source="post: 2144054" data-attributes="member: 16668">OOC:Hi SamLet me try this one last time; I don't want to bog down this thread with our dream interpretations.wolf = usraven = manticoredeer = something we both want.. Kell's Reach, or the lives of the folk in the area.. choose one, doesn't matter to the explanationThe parable (layer one): the wolf tries to keep the manticore away from the deer --> us protecting the village from the manticorethe wolf takes damage from the raven, but the raven can't get at the deer --> stalemate.. the manticore can pick off stray villagers, but we're still on its tail, making its life difficultthe wolf leaves the deer to the raven, and the raven gorges --> the manticore develops a false sense of security, thinking we've leftthe wolf return and kills the raven --> the raven's gorging and inability to fly away to escape the wolf is a metaphor for the manticore's aforementioned false sense of securityThe parable (layer two):In layer one, the deer symbolised something fairly abstract, like Kell's Reach or the lives of the folk of the Lakelands. What if we now have the deer represent something more concrete? Like the specific means (read bait) for trapping and killing the manticore? You can interpret the deer as the direct downfall of the raven. Gragnor could be indicating that we should lull the manticore into thinking it can act unhindered (i.e. making it think we've left the area), but in reality we've laid a trap for it, as the wolf did for the raven (i.e. it left the deer to the raven knowing that this would render the raven helpless).</blockquote>

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