Notes to self
Jan. 13th, 2005 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maderr*refine magic good, sword bad thing.
*blood - violence? or any reason?
*vegetarians? or farmers, butchers etc a necessary evil?
*refine father and uncle, also Tei's past.
*Papillion or Papiyon? (since the 2x l wouldn't make much sense)
(rough outline for legend, need to refine) Once (a long time ago?) there was a kingdom so luch and green and rich and gold that it was the envy of all others. Monarch longed to possess it, people longed to be a part of it. The few travelers permitted within its borders found that they no longer desired to wander. A more marvelous kingdom did not exist.
Most wonderful of all was the Queen who reigned over its vast glory, a queen of summer hair and winter eyes. It was said her magic was the mightiest of all, divine magic gifted to her by the gods for some deed long since forgotten. She ruled the kingdom well and was beloved by all. When everything began to go wrong, she had been ruling for well over two hundred years.
They called her the Butterfly Queen, after the beautiufl little creatures that she loved so dearly she took for her royal crest the one she favored above all other, a butterfly with black and violet wings. A butterfly that no longer exists.
No one knows what happend. Some say she made the ternally foolish mistake of falling in love with someone she could not have. Otehrs say she simply became consumed by her power; still others believe she went mad. Theories abound, but no answers. The cause matters little now.
The result was that when the Mad Queen was finally defeated, all within the kingdom perished with her. The entire country was destroyed. Nothing remains today but a vast desert of black sand. This is, perhaps, why it is called the Graveyard.
"So...so why did this happen to me?" Teival asked, voice hoarse with tears. "I don't understand."
The priest seated across the table, kneeling on a pillow of saffron silk, sighed softly and set his pale green tea cup gently down. "That is only the legend, Tei. Reality is much more grim."
*blood - violence? or any reason?
*vegetarians? or farmers, butchers etc a necessary evil?
*refine father and uncle, also Tei's past.
*Papillion or Papiyon? (since the 2x l wouldn't make much sense)
(rough outline for legend, need to refine) Once (a long time ago?) there was a kingdom so luch and green and rich and gold that it was the envy of all others. Monarch longed to possess it, people longed to be a part of it. The few travelers permitted within its borders found that they no longer desired to wander. A more marvelous kingdom did not exist.
Most wonderful of all was the Queen who reigned over its vast glory, a queen of summer hair and winter eyes. It was said her magic was the mightiest of all, divine magic gifted to her by the gods for some deed long since forgotten. She ruled the kingdom well and was beloved by all. When everything began to go wrong, she had been ruling for well over two hundred years.
They called her the Butterfly Queen, after the beautiufl little creatures that she loved so dearly she took for her royal crest the one she favored above all other, a butterfly with black and violet wings. A butterfly that no longer exists.
No one knows what happend. Some say she made the ternally foolish mistake of falling in love with someone she could not have. Otehrs say she simply became consumed by her power; still others believe she went mad. Theories abound, but no answers. The cause matters little now.
The result was that when the Mad Queen was finally defeated, all within the kingdom perished with her. The entire country was destroyed. Nothing remains today but a vast desert of black sand. This is, perhaps, why it is called the Graveyard.
"So...so why did this happen to me?" Teival asked, voice hoarse with tears. "I don't understand."
The priest seated across the table, kneeling on a pillow of saffron silk, sighed softly and set his pale green tea cup gently down. "That is only the legend, Tei. Reality is much more grim."
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Date: 2005-01-13 11:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-13 11:38 pm (UTC)I guess all the Japanese made her forget.
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Date: 2005-01-13 11:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-14 12:29 am (UTC)You people have no faith in my intelligence at all. It wasn't a matter of "is this how it's spelled?" it was a matter of "how do I want to spell it?"
And this was meant to be private locked *smacks self*
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Date: 2005-01-14 12:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-14 12:39 am (UTC)And this was meant to be private locked.
um... fucking duh?
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Date: 2005-01-14 01:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-14 02:44 am (UTC)*Looks at you*
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Date: 2005-01-14 02:45 am (UTC)*snuggles*
I'll probably write more of it tomorrow.
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Date: 2005-01-14 03:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-14 04:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-14 04:30 am (UTC)Shows where MY mind is. I saw the first sentence as "There was a kingdom so LUNCH and green.