Riddles

[Elf_Ariel]

Favoured by men, I am found far and wide,
taken from woods and the heights of the town,
From high and from low. during each day
bees brought me through the bright sky
skillfully home to a shelter. Soon after that
I was taken by men and bathed in a tub.
Now I blind them and chasten them, and cast
a young man at once to the ground,
and sometimes an old one too.
He who struggles against my strength,
he who dares grapple with me, discovers immediately
that he will hit the hard floor with his back
if he persists with such stupidity.
Deprived of his strength and strangely loquacious,
he's a fool, who rules neither his mind
nor his hands nor his feet.
Now ask me, my friends,
who knocks young men stupid,
and as his slave binds them
in broad waking daylight?
Yes ask me my name.

What alcohol is made by honey? Or am I totally off track...

Another to add to the mix:

Both loud and silent
'Pending on who looks at me
Small and large
Heavy and light
Often a quirk of hindsight
Some believe me worthy
Some collect me
Some burn me

What am I?

Hopefully it's easy enough.

 

[Toxicsyn]

i believe the elf lady was refering to Mead

 

[Sienna_Rose]

Another to add to the mix:

Both loud and silent
'Pending on who looks at me
Small and large
Heavy and light
Often a quirk of hindsight
Some believe me worthy
Some collect me
Some burn me

What am I?

Hopefully it's easy enough.

Umm... books?

 

[Ryu Shadowstep]

Darkness

QUOTE]

Correct.


oops...

 

[Elf_Ariel]

Indeed...perhaps I should make them a little harder...

 

[Magi_Trelian]

The slender figure in the red & gold tunic pauses by the door and grins, seeing the newly posted riddles and their answers. Trelian murmurs, "Wish I could think of one!" before continuing on the path to the bar.

((i.e., wonderful riddles! but just a quick reminder that this somehow got part of the in-char section of the boards ))

 

[Babylon Logos]

i believe the elf lady was refering to Mead

Aye.

How about this then?

Wob's my name if you work it out;
I'm a fair creature fashioned for battle
When I bend and shoot my deadly shaft
from my stomach, I desire only to send
that poison as far away as possible.
When my lord, who devised this torment for me,
releases my limbs, I become longer
and, bent upon slaughter, spit out
that deadly poison I swallowed before.
No man's parted easily from the object
I describe; if he's struck by what flies
from my stomach, he pays for its poison
with his strength - speedy atonement for his life
I'll serve no master when unstrung, only when
I'm cunningly nocked. Now guess my name.

 

[Lassrinn]

Wob's my name if you work it out;
I'm a fair creature fashioned for battle
When I bend and shoot my deadly shaft
from my stomach, I desire only to send
that poison as far away as possible.
When my lord, who devised this torment for me,
releases my limbs, I become longer
and, bent upon slaughter, spit out
that deadly poison I swallowed before.
No man's parted easily from the object
I describe; if he's struck by what flies
from my stomach, he pays for its poison
with his strength - speedy atonement for his life
I'll serve no master when unstrung, only when
I'm cunningly nocked. Now guess my name.


answer: A Bow

 

[Elf_Ariel]

The elf lass reads, then tacs up another with a smile...

They say:
It's now
It's then
It's when
It's edible
It's sweet
It's fun
It's sociable
It's together

what is it?

 

[amryll]

an elven figure wrapped in a shimmering black cloak looks over the riddles posted,answering a few to himself before lifting an ebon hand to tack one up himself
She said that it's in a place no one calls home, yet many reside within. Where all the realms unite, yet it's not a realm itself."Beyond the shadows of dusk, past the whispering of the joining forests, where all walk yet never call home, and near to the shadows of the falls, there shall be the Temple where the One Goddess resides

Past the dusk in the mountains vale, beyond the joining of the whispering forests, where none live yet everyone roam and stay, within the common ground of all, that is where you shall find the Goddess and her Temple of one


written below the riddle Not sure if this is a riddle or not, but I hope some one has better luck with it than I did.
(OOC note, after four years, I think I may finally have the answer.)