[HQ Ignorance] Re : Scene 60: The Angel of Mourning. Thinking time

[Nic Hughes]

Sam Elliot wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Loran <aillet_l at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>   
>> Azhur looked around, looking for other potential candidates: dead knights and soldiers were lying all around, wounded survivors were mourning up to the inner buildings of the fortress (even the philosophic Aalmon, under the loss of his lecherous brother,
>>     
>
> Nic/Lev - is Baros really dead?
>
> Or is he in the Green Age needing rescuing by intrepid Green
> Age-o-philes like Icthya and her sidekick?
>
>   

It occurred to me that he was never quite alive in the same way as a 
human - he was an embodied spirit that is now disembodied. So "death" 
might not mean the same thing at all to him. On the other hand I think 
the story needs Aalmon to think that he is dead. There is no real reason 
for Aalmon to truly understand his brother's strange nature, Icthya and 
her spirits probably understood Baros' spirit nature better than Aalmon did.

At the moment I think he is a sort of vague dispersed fertility spirit 
causing the forest to grow a little faster and encouraging the animals 
within it to multiply. As for 'could he come back', I guess anything is 
possible in HQ but in a way I would rather it not happen straight away - 
maybe its something that can become a goal for Aalmon later on. Its not 
like Green age quests are either easy or free of consequences!

Lev, in answer to your question I think I am slowing the story down 
enough already without narrating the funeral scene right now. We can 
leave that off-camera for the time being and then handle it in a 
flashback if it becomes more relevant or central to the story - e.g. if 
we were to follow up on the green age quest idea.


Nic



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