Feb-10-2012, 04:32 PM (UTC)
I tell you, I feel like I'm wearing down and darned near ready to click on those spoilers! 
Hurry up tomorrow (EDIT: I've had this window open so long it's now TODAY - yikes!). If my book is not in the store by the time I reach the coast in the afternoon, I am going to be behind bars tomorrow night (EDIT: now tonight!) for committing some untold horror to the staff. You think I'm joking...but I'm not!
Hmm...we've talked about who (keepers) ends up with whom and also movement of the memory stone somewhere else before as well, I think. So many threads we have on here these days, it's impossible to keep track of past ponderings even when using 'search'! Such a tapestry we have woven with these threads.
I have to think about them though as I'd hate to write one thing here and totally contradict something else I've already said...as Farseer-like as that would be for me!
The idea you beings have come up with for reshaping the Rain River is a very, very clever one which I would never have come up with.
Still, I would have to wonder at the possible side-effects from everyday proximity with the stone and also the logistics with working with the stone itself during construction. Off to have a think...especially as this thought has just taken me off on a whole other tangent! It could take a while, especially if yet another tangent or two takes me while I explore these ones... 
Still, whatever's been thrown about previously, I don't think I had ever thought about the river as being one of the means of transporting the memory stone from place-to-place. That, too, is clever. It would make perfect sense, of course, particularly knowing that Rurisk sent down the Mountain Kingdom trees to Verity in Buck in this very same manner...the ones which resulted in his war ships.
It would certainly explain how such large quantities came to be downriver/near river systems and thus available to be used as a building material in both Frengong and Cassarick...not to mention Kelsingra and even for the Skill Road. I am also thinking of the huge memory stone bridge that spans the river at one point...
I have a feeling that such things have been chatted about in the Elderings Creation thread. Off to take a look there and in the Technology thread. Why not? It's only nearly 1:30am and I'm due to get out of bed (the one that I haven't made it to yet!) in under three hours!
The memory stone sand where the serpents cocoon has long been of interest to me as well...that it exists there in a sand-like or ground form as opposed to stone...and the same could be said of the 'gravel' path on Others' Island, which I have spoken about before also. This use of the word 'gravel' in connection with that path makes me think it quite different to both the sand and the stone forms, but still made of memory stone nonetheless. Are these sand and gravel forms naturally occurring or have they been broken down/ground by human or Elderling hands?
Sorry, switching threads again, not to mention not overly contributing to the discussion here...maybe we should have started this thread first and then we (me!) wouldn't have to worry about searching elsewhere for lost thoughts... ...one cube of memory stone only, that would suit me.
Hurry up tomorrow (EDIT: I've had this window open so long it's now TODAY - yikes!). If my book is not in the store by the time I reach the coast in the afternoon, I am going to be behind bars tomorrow night (EDIT: now tonight!) for committing some untold horror to the staff. You think I'm joking...but I'm not!
Hmm...we've talked about who (keepers) ends up with whom and also movement of the memory stone somewhere else before as well, I think. So many threads we have on here these days, it's impossible to keep track of past ponderings even when using 'search'! Such a tapestry we have woven with these threads.
I have to think about them though as I'd hate to write one thing here and totally contradict something else I've already said...as Farseer-like as that would be for me!The idea you beings have come up with for reshaping the Rain River is a very, very clever one which I would never have come up with.
Still, I would have to wonder at the possible side-effects from everyday proximity with the stone and also the logistics with working with the stone itself during construction. Off to have a think...especially as this thought has just taken me off on a whole other tangent! It could take a while, especially if yet another tangent or two takes me while I explore these ones... Still, whatever's been thrown about previously, I don't think I had ever thought about the river as being one of the means of transporting the memory stone from place-to-place. That, too, is clever. It would make perfect sense, of course, particularly knowing that Rurisk sent down the Mountain Kingdom trees to Verity in Buck in this very same manner...the ones which resulted in his war ships.
It would certainly explain how such large quantities came to be downriver/near river systems and thus available to be used as a building material in both Frengong and Cassarick...not to mention Kelsingra and even for the Skill Road. I am also thinking of the huge memory stone bridge that spans the river at one point...
I have a feeling that such things have been chatted about in the Elderings Creation thread. Off to take a look there and in the Technology thread. Why not? It's only nearly 1:30am and I'm due to get out of bed (the one that I haven't made it to yet!) in under three hours!
The memory stone sand where the serpents cocoon has long been of interest to me as well...that it exists there in a sand-like or ground form as opposed to stone...and the same could be said of the 'gravel' path on Others' Island, which I have spoken about before also. This use of the word 'gravel' in connection with that path makes me think it quite different to both the sand and the stone forms, but still made of memory stone nonetheless. Are these sand and gravel forms naturally occurring or have they been broken down/ground by human or Elderling hands?
Sorry, switching threads again, not to mention not overly contributing to the discussion here...maybe we should have started this thread first and then we (me!) wouldn't have to worry about searching elsewhere for lost thoughts...
...one cube of memory stone only, that would suit me.
"I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves."
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