Re: Faeriespace - Was: Fairyspace Expansion

--- David Shepheard <david_shepheard@???????.com>
wrote:

> Lots of courts rather than the two courts that
> Charles proposed?
> 
> OK, then. Sell me on this.

I think Edward explained it better than me. 
"Kingdoms" is probably not a good word; I'm thinking
more like barons, at best.  A strong lord in his
fairy-tale castle, with a "court" of family and
servants.  That's pretty much what I had in mind;
certainly no sprawling kingdoms and such! :)


> If worlds fall off of the tree, I'd like to see them
> fall out of the influence of Aelivere. I would like
> Aelivere to have a true neutral alignment and I'd
> like him to carry out individual actions that keep
> all other alignments in balance. So, I'd prefer to
> see Vastdarken apples remain on the tree. However,
> if you want to create "windfalls" on the bottom of
> the crystal sphere* you could introduce a new bunch
> of "invisible" societies that are not under
> Aelivere's control.

Interesting.  I sorta saw it like this: there are
innumerable "world fruits" in the tree.  Four are
"ripe"...that is, they're planet-sized.  The rest are
smaller, somewhat like asteroids & moons.  As they
grow, they get bigger.  Eventually, one gets too big
and falls from the tree.  The process takes centuries.
 When a world falls (again, a LONG process), it falls
into the "roots" of the tree, where it rots.  Again, a
process that takes a LONG time.  There are innumerable
"rotted" fruit down there; only four are still planet
sized.  Again, the older, more rotted fruits fill the
same role as asteroids/moons.  They slowly vanish into
the void, absorbed by the roots of the tree,
continuing the cycle of life.

That's kinda what I had in mind :)


> The more I look at what everyone has said, the more
> I think that Aelivere should be a dryad - *the*
> dryad - from within the great tree. This would 
> give him the ability to be anywhere on the tree.
> (The smaller dryads mentioned for Upgood, should be
> dryads who live within the normal sized 
> trees on the surface of the "apples" of Upgood.)

Interest idea, I like it :)


> If we tie this sort of thing in with your windfall
> idea, we could have a "cycle of life". So far we
> have:
> 
> 1) The great tree (The Shrakma Tree) create
> everything lesser plants need to live,
> 2) Lesser plants creating food for plant eating
> animals and
> 3) Plant eating animals creating food for preditors.
 
Basically, yes.


> <Creatures as Ships>

I agree that the critters should be tied to the tree,
and can't leave the sphere! :)

Adam


       
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