Questions?

[merlinscribe]

If you have general questions about the World of Obsidian and its lore, post them here and I will answer them as best I can. I say "as best I can" because I have been working on this series since the late Cretaceous period and I may no longer remember some answers.

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Questions

[saynotsweetanne]

Some more from me!(Spoilers below so be warned all!)

1) Can you explain the relationship between Spirit of Elemental Darkness and Darkness? Is the Spirit a smaller, lesser version of the proper Darkness? And is Darkness synonymous with He-Who-Is?

2) Are there Spirits of Elemental Light?

3) What is the door that Ancaladar goes through in Abi'Abadashar? It seems implied it was a failsafe for an Endarkened attack, involving Time and Space. So are we to understand they used magic to push people 6 months and X miles away?

4) What time period is Abi'Abadashar from?

5) Does Idalia Caerthalien (I assume the daughter of Ashaniel and Andoreniel would be called thus) remember her previous life directly or more as she was informed of it as she grew in her elven body?

I'm sure I'll think of more eventually ;)

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[merlinscribe]

1. I cannot. I imagine I was using several different names for the same thing again. The one thing I'm sure of is that Darkness is not synonymous with He Who Is.

2. Everyone talks about The Light, and I think there must be slightly more embodied Spirits of Light, but when (frex) a Wildmage calls upon the Light, s/he is calling upon the whole element of Light.

3. That is a Time Gate. It moves people backward in time: the reason Ancaladar was so far away was because he was looking for Tiercel before he realized what had happened.

3a. The Time Gate can be controlled by the Dragon Mage who takes their Dragon through it. Without a Dragon Mage in charge, it's up to the Dragon.

4. Abi'Abadshar was constructed during the second half of the First Endarkened War. Initially the Elves intended to expand their theater of battle across the desert, but when they discovered those lands to be inhabited by the vulnerable Firesprites, they retreated and carried the war elsewhere.

5. Idalia Caerthalien remembered her previous life vividly at the moment she was born. Later those memories were overlaid with new ones as she lived her new life, but she never completely forgot her previous existence as Wildmage and Healer.

Looking forward to the next round.