Old World Giveaway

Astra · Post by **Astra** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 6:15 pm

cool. nothing like humans named after real words

then who was the horse?

(well, poll is part of a horse, and bay is a type of horse, so ... yeah lol)

angeoria · Post by **angeoria** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 6:22 pm

Sean had a horse, and I believe that Sorka did too, but I honestly can't remember their names. ^^;

jess d · Post by **jess d** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 6:24 pm

Sean's was Cricket, but I don't remember Sorka's, and I don't havethe book in front of me. I'm noy entirely sure they said her name.

Astra · Post by **Astra** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:28 pm

all this talk about menolly's firelizards reminds me of this image from the cover of Dragonsinger, which is probably one of my favorite cover art images, ever. It just portrays so much emotion, and a level of detail that for some reason really made the world in that book come alive for me when I read it at age 13. The firelizards look kind of ... not like firelizards, but I still thought it was brilliant at the time.

Shard · Post by **Shard** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:54 pm

heeh - How about this one?

This is one of my alternate-world 'clones', and yeah there's one of each. Did this about 1985.

Asha Wermyst · Post by **Asha Wermyst** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 6:23 am

Okay......I drew a firelizard once, but it went scrap a while ago, on account of the crapiness of it.

angeoria · Post by **angeoria** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 6:47 am

I really like the delicacy and the lines of your flits there, Shard - they remind me of the coverart on my (admittedly quite old) paperbacks of Dragonsong and Dragonsinger, which had almost an art nouveau look to them, and very graceful, very dainty flits. Oddly enough, Pernese dragons have always been much stronger and sturdier-looking in my head, and I know that the firelizards were supposed to look merely like miniature dragons, but I've always imagined them best on that artwork.

Samber · Post by **Samber** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 9:18 am

>Shard: I think I only got one of the three... stupid form's acting up again.

>jess: Sorka's horse was named Doove.

>angeoria: D'you mean this one? Those are the one's my elementary school had, and I loved the cover art... actually found a used copy of the Dragonsong peperback at my library book sale a while back. Bought it, of course.

Ehh. Now I have to figure out who gets the extra fire-lizard. Help?

Astra · Post by **Astra** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 9:19 am

I'd say Mystic; it was her idea to begin with, the rest of us just elaborated

Shard · Post by **Shard** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 9:28 am

That's probably the image I had seen before making this pic, they look very similar.

With those splayed feetses.

I stopped using an ink nib shortly after doing this pic - they break, they're really hard to use. This picture was probably one of the best ones I did, and even it is really poor compared to what a professional could have done, so I just stopped.

It's way more work than I like, I much prefer the simple lines of rapidographs and even just microns, at this point, though the line variation is something I miss. ... plus the scan? Those colors are only vaguely similar to the real thing. Her clothing's tunic trim is *brown*, the outfit's lavender. Everything in fact is just a little less red than in the scan, but I couldn't remove it. I hate scanning color works.... :/ They always turn out close but no cigar, to me. I know I have a blank of this, somewhere, but it's probably buried waaaaay deep in my storage rooms and I wouldn't stand much chance of finding it among the many things there, to computer color.

Anyway thanks

For a 20 year old picture it's not bad.

Samber · Post by **Samber** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 9:32 am

Alrighty, Mystic gets it then.

One gold queen fire-lizard to Mystic for being the first to figure it out.

Asha Wermyst · Post by **Asha Wermyst** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 9:51 am

Um......what about me? I figured out what to do with the clue.....mostly. And Shard said I ought to win.

Samber · Post by **Samber** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 9:56 am

Fine, you can have one too.

Asha:

Nice little brown.

Anyone else?

Mystic Dragon · Post by **Mystic Dragon** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 2:09 pm

Thanks! And I shall name her Astra, for it was she who figured out the clue you gave us.

Asha Wermyst · Post by **Asha Wermyst** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 2:25 pm

Yay! I name him later. Must think.

LakotaWolf · Post by **LakotaWolf** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 5:02 pm

Ooh! Ooh! Name it Pastern! Or Croup! Or Stifle!

:D

Asha Wermyst · Post by **Asha Wermyst** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 5:19 pm

*moans.* No. His name is Teae. *mumbleth something, about where he's going to live.*

jess d · Post by **jess d** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 5:27 pm

My little blue is now Swift (named by my husband) and he lives with Th'yer and Wialenth at www.geocities.com/dragonstale20/theier

Swift · Post by **Swift** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 6:55 pm

*grin*

Not very many better names out there, are there, jess? I like it!

Lakota, mind if I call my brown Croup?

Did you ever read Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere? Mr. Vandemar and Mr. Croup? It's not my favorite of his, but it's up there.

LakotaWolf · Post by **LakotaWolf** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 3:07 am

::gringrin:: Sure, use Croup! :D I actually think it's a pretty cool-sounding word. I haven't read that book, but I've heard of that author and I'll look it up next time I'm at Barnes and Noble... I'm starting to re-read my old books because I don't have any new ones :{ I need to expand my author pool, so to speak...

And... I'll name my own firelizard Kansha, which (I think) is Japanese for "mudflat" :}

I'll put him up with my dragon when I get my dragon :3 So excited!

Asha Wermyst · Post by **Asha Wermyst** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 5:47 am

You know, I think "croup" is part of a horse, too. A moment....

Wait, no, croup is a type of really bad cough. "Pastern" is a part of a horse. Leg, I believe. Yes.

Asha Wermyst · Post by **Asha Wermyst** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 6:14 am

Ceru, the bronze firelizard, is here with my newest Chaos of Color dragon:

http://home.alltel.net/leugers/stormsig ... in-ka.html

Teae isn't up on a page yet......very soon.

Mystic Dragon · Post by **Mystic Dragon** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 6:53 am

Croup is also part of a horse. It's the section right before the tail above the hindquarters.

Asha Wermyst · Post by **Asha Wermyst** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 10:53 am

Toldja. Stifle is not part of a horse, however. Yay.

angeoria · Post by **angeoria** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 11:11 am

*coughs* Actually... ^^

LakotaWolf · Post by **LakotaWolf** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 2:08 pm

Asha Wermyst wrote:Toldja. Stifle is not part of a horse, however. Yay.

Yes. A "stifle" IS part of a horse. I did my research, thank you very much.

And thanks for the confirmation, Angeoria ;}

Mystic Dragon · Post by **Mystic Dragon** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:26 pm

R'wel and Xolferth are up, along with the two flits I got. ^_^

http://www.geocities.com/new_warren/rowlstats.html

Skysong · Post by **Skysong** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:39 am

Zarapeth and W'ree are now up ^_^ Sorry about the ugly page.. right now I'm trying to page first, and then I'll make stories and pretty later >_>

Hope, the gold fire-lizard, is also up on the page with them:

http://members.shaw.ca/skysong/adopted/zarapeth.html

Thanks again ^_^

Myrror · Post by **Myrror** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:57 am

You can give mine to someone else.

Samber · Post by **Samber** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:59 am

Myrror wrote:You can give mine to someone else.

Err... why? It's all right if you just don't like blues, I guess, I'm just curious...