May-08-2010, 03:19 PM (UTC)
(This post was last modified: May-08-2010, 03:20 PM (UTC) by Farseer.)
Was considering putting this in the Rain Wild Chronicles thread but think it better belongs here? While it could be said that wizardwood is not an Elderling material for art, but rather a material wrongly used by Rain Wilders, I could point out that dragons DID give outstanding minstrels a portion of wizardwood so that they could then be preserved within the Rooster Crown? That being my basis for adding wizardwood and liveships to the thread, I'll cut and paste...!
It's interesting to note that, by the end of the RW Chronicles, Tarman joined Paragon in the elite group of liveships to have been made from two different wizardwood logs (albeit not originally). I don't think there were any others, were there?
Though he had temporarily gone against his normal easy-going nature, and proved stubborn to Leftren's orders when insisting on his choice of direction to Kelsingra, was there anything to really suggest that he had been overly 'changed' by the experience? Nothing to suggest that he had absorbed any other dragon memories from the additional wood, or found himself 'torn' as Paragon did? Did Tarman always know the way to Kelsingra, but just couldn't make it that far without his webbed feet etc, OR did he only discover the way AFTER his improvements had been made (via memories from within the new wood)?
If not, obviously this would then have been due to the fact that the wizardwood Leftrin used had come from a 'log' that had held a dead dragon. This, in turn, would confirm the idea raised at the end of LST, that only those liveships made from similar wizardwood (from a dragon already dead prior to opening/exposure) had remained unchanged eg Ophelia.
Hmm, have just thought of something else...the question is, why can a liveship made out of 'dead' wood still be quickened? Is it because the wood itself is like a vessel for memories (like memory stone), waiting to be filled and, in the case of liveships made from a dead dragon's wood, only becomes filled by their human family's memories? Quickening this dead wood (as well as live wood, for want of a better way to differentiate the two!) usually requires the anma from three generations...
Going on from there, how is it that Tarman was able to even use his new appendages when they were separate from his original wood, and without the need for blood? Is it that the new wood absorbed his own memories and so became one with him? Remembering that Amber had used Paragon's own wood when reshaping his face, creating his battle-axe, earring etc...
Going on from there, how did Kennit's charm quicken on Others Island without the transfer of blood or the anma of a life? Blood, after all, is memory...
It's interesting to note that, by the end of the RW Chronicles, Tarman joined Paragon in the elite group of liveships to have been made from two different wizardwood logs (albeit not originally). I don't think there were any others, were there?
Though he had temporarily gone against his normal easy-going nature, and proved stubborn to Leftren's orders when insisting on his choice of direction to Kelsingra, was there anything to really suggest that he had been overly 'changed' by the experience? Nothing to suggest that he had absorbed any other dragon memories from the additional wood, or found himself 'torn' as Paragon did? Did Tarman always know the way to Kelsingra, but just couldn't make it that far without his webbed feet etc, OR did he only discover the way AFTER his improvements had been made (via memories from within the new wood)?
If not, obviously this would then have been due to the fact that the wizardwood Leftrin used had come from a 'log' that had held a dead dragon. This, in turn, would confirm the idea raised at the end of LST, that only those liveships made from similar wizardwood (from a dragon already dead prior to opening/exposure) had remained unchanged eg Ophelia.
Hmm, have just thought of something else...the question is, why can a liveship made out of 'dead' wood still be quickened? Is it because the wood itself is like a vessel for memories (like memory stone), waiting to be filled and, in the case of liveships made from a dead dragon's wood, only becomes filled by their human family's memories? Quickening this dead wood (as well as live wood, for want of a better way to differentiate the two!) usually requires the anma from three generations...
Going on from there, how is it that Tarman was able to even use his new appendages when they were separate from his original wood, and without the need for blood? Is it that the new wood absorbed his own memories and so became one with him? Remembering that Amber had used Paragon's own wood when reshaping his face, creating his battle-axe, earring etc...
Going on from there, how did Kennit's charm quicken on Others Island without the transfer of blood or the anma of a life? Blood, after all, is memory...
"I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves."
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