May-09-2010, 04:01 PM (UTC)
This could belong here in a comparative respect to dragons/other mythical creatures but it could just as easily fit in with any of the 'Words Like Coins', 'Dragon Haven', ‘cats’ or 'favourite character' threads! What to do? Mervi, I think I need you to reel me in!
Anyhow, in WLC, pecksies are known for their careful use of words, hence the title. I would suggest that their limited desire/need to speak (and hence waste words), is overcome by or due to their ability to regularly use the Skill, or Wit, as a means of communicating with each other. As far as I can remember, nothing like this is even indirectly suggested in the text but is simply a hunch I have had (that could be way off the mark!).
If they have the silver of the Skill on their hands, the next logical step is to also assume that they have Skill ability? That the pecksie hedge-witch in WLC has the capability to work with charms in a similar fashion to the Fool (not to mention Amber's beads etc), I would assume that this was due to her Skill-covered hands, just as it was with Amber/Fool's and also Verity's and Kettle's.
While just now re-reading Dragon Keeper, I have come across the introductory conversation between Thymara and Sintara and it got me thinking. In it Sintara says to Thymara, "I didn't 'hatch' here. I emerged from my case. Are you too ignorant of dragon ways to know the difference?"
Thymara replied, "I'm not ignorant.....To say that you hatched here was just a manner of speaking."
"A careless use of words," Sintara corrected her.
Later on in the conversation, Thymara asks, “Why are you dragons so certain that Kerlinger exists?”
“If you are trying to talk about Kelsingra, then at least name it correctly. You are very careless with your language.”
These are so similar to likely responses from a pecksie in a same situation that I can't help but think that it suggests a particularly strong link or likeness of some kind between the dragons and peckies...they both seem to care so much about 'words', and I am sure that this sort of thing has been mentioned elsewhere by other dragons.
I seem to remember possibly even Tintaglia complaining of it in SOD, when she grumbled about humans and their need for speaking all of the time and also Bolt, who was annoyed at Kennit (I think?) for using the incorrect names of characters in a story re-telling....a story she knew the truth of from her dragon memories.
Hmmm....if pecksies have Others-like qualities, it also stands to reason that they will share qualities with dragons also. And yet, they are also cat-like and Elderling-like, and even Fool-like!
Anyhow, in WLC, pecksies are known for their careful use of words, hence the title. I would suggest that their limited desire/need to speak (and hence waste words), is overcome by or due to their ability to regularly use the Skill, or Wit, as a means of communicating with each other. As far as I can remember, nothing like this is even indirectly suggested in the text but is simply a hunch I have had (that could be way off the mark!).
If they have the silver of the Skill on their hands, the next logical step is to also assume that they have Skill ability? That the pecksie hedge-witch in WLC has the capability to work with charms in a similar fashion to the Fool (not to mention Amber's beads etc), I would assume that this was due to her Skill-covered hands, just as it was with Amber/Fool's and also Verity's and Kettle's.
While just now re-reading Dragon Keeper, I have come across the introductory conversation between Thymara and Sintara and it got me thinking. In it Sintara says to Thymara, "I didn't 'hatch' here. I emerged from my case. Are you too ignorant of dragon ways to know the difference?"
Thymara replied, "I'm not ignorant.....To say that you hatched here was just a manner of speaking."
"A careless use of words," Sintara corrected her.
Later on in the conversation, Thymara asks, “Why are you dragons so certain that Kerlinger exists?”
“If you are trying to talk about Kelsingra, then at least name it correctly. You are very careless with your language.”
These are so similar to likely responses from a pecksie in a same situation that I can't help but think that it suggests a particularly strong link or likeness of some kind between the dragons and peckies...they both seem to care so much about 'words', and I am sure that this sort of thing has been mentioned elsewhere by other dragons. I seem to remember possibly even Tintaglia complaining of it in SOD, when she grumbled about humans and their need for speaking all of the time and also Bolt, who was annoyed at Kennit (I think?) for using the incorrect names of characters in a story re-telling....a story she knew the truth of from her dragon memories.
Hmmm....if pecksies have Others-like qualities, it also stands to reason that they will share qualities with dragons also. And yet, they are also cat-like and Elderling-like, and even Fool-like!
"I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves."
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