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Eltheron
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 Posted - 14 Feb 2015 : 23:04:43
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If you agree with what happened in LP (as far as the mortal's speculation on what happened), why confirm it?
I would far prefer uncertainty, rather than confirming the mortals' speculation and then having to live with a totally screwed up history for the goddess when/if she returns.
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Irennan
Great Reader
Italy
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Posted - 14 Feb 2015 : 23:15:54
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Originally posted by Eltheron
If you agree with what happened in LP (as far as the mortal's speculation on what happened), why confirm it?
I would far prefer uncertainty, rather than confirming the mortals' speculation and then having to live with a totally screwed up history for the goddess when/if she returns.
Until some months ago I thought that Brian/Eric's lore was our last chance to see Eilistraee alive in the present FR. I also thought (and that's what I currently know) that the ''sacrifice'' stuff was kind of canon (the alternative would be Eilistraee going full retard and letting Qilué be killed by the sword, while taking a huge blow herself, probably not enough to die -because by canon deities can only be directly killed in their home realm- but still enough to be reduced in a powerless status), and Brian/Eric found a meaningful way to fix it.
Now I know that Ed has prepared something that will make Eilistraee alive in the current FR, and if it simply leaves LP behind (in a ''it has happened, now things are different'' fashion, like the Sundering is doing with other events), I'll be happier to be honest (unless Ed found a way make something awesome out of it, while restoring the two drow twins, which could totally happen with him) because those novels could be the best, coolest and most awesome books ever, but what happened in them only hurts Eilistraee/Vhaeraun and doesn't fit them (in fact they were explicitly commissioned to get rid of Eilistraee, the drow pantheon, and any good drow but Drizzt, so that he could be even more iconic...).
This however doesn't mean that I'm not interested in seeing what Brian and Eric came up with. It sounded like a valid way to fix LP (I mean, what that story brought to the Dark Seldarine is what it is...), restore Eilistraee and Vhaeraun and expand on Rhymathiin and the transformed elves. A this point it would be fanon anyway (and if the ''sacrifice'' interpretation of LP weren't canon -which I hope-, it wouldn't be confirmed) so why not reveal it? |
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Edited by - Irennan on 14 Feb 2015 23:47:38 |
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Fate of Eilistraee Dark elves Brian James?
