Another boy who will never grow old

Published March 3, 2010 12:41 PM

I wanted to announce a small bit of valley news that probably won’t figure in a chapter for a while yet, but might interest some of you. At least in terms of speculating about what some possible results might be.

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Elven perception of "Nature"

Published February 3, 2010 06:54 PM

Pen asked me some questions about elven color schemes in decoration and my answer was starting to look more like a Verso post than a comment, so here it is.

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Second, Third, Fourth

Published October 31, 2009 11:12 AM

Pen asked this question:

Is the second to the Khor always the opposite nature of the Khor, as with Sorin and Osh, Vash and Paul?

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Elf demographics graphs

Published May 12, 2009 12:16 PM

I was just playing around with a new PHP graphing library (pChart) and came up with a few interesting (and rather sobering) graphs about the elven population of Lothere.

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Random chapters and highly targeted elf pictures

Published March 7, 2009 03:05 PM

I just uploaded a crapload of mostly invisible code updates to the Web server. (Hopefully not breaking anything.)

I don’t remember what all I fixed over the last weeks, as usual, blah blah blah, but there is a new and strangely addictive feature in the right-​hand sidebar now: “Random Chapter.” You can get trapped in an endless maze of Lothere now, or at least while away a boring afternoon in Christian Sexuality class.

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Now with less elves!

Published November 3, 2008 06:00 PM

No, this is not a response to the recent poll, but just an update about what I have been doing with the elven population.

I just slayed about half of them.

(This is more for my own reference than yours, but if you care, keep reading.)

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Elven Villages

Published October 31, 2008 05:32 PM

I have finished putting all my living elves into households, and the households into villages, so at last I can say I know who and where everyone is, and how they’re related, and just what Lar and Sorin are dealing with on their respective sides.

Link: List of Elven Villages

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Elven polyphony

Published August 26, 2007 10:37 AM

Music is so difficult to write about, I usually don’t bother trying. My recent attempt was further complicated by coming from the point of view of a frightened three-​year-​old.

Having failed, therefore, to evoke what I had in mind, thanks to the magic of the Internets I can direct you kisór fans to precisely what I had in mind, so that you can have a listen.

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Elven castes 101

Published May 31, 2007 03:38 PM

I don’t know how interesting or how germane this is, but since I am revealing the elves’ castes on the bio pages, I should probably give a short characteristically long-​winded description of their caste system. If nothing else, it will give those of you who are so inclined the occasion to find out what caste the babies would have if certain elves married certain others.

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Mirror, Mirror

Published April 5, 2007 06:30 PM

Any Star Trek fans among you? Those of you who are will surely remember the classic episode “Mirror, Mirror”, in which the Enterprise crew meets with their doubles from a parallel universe. However, in this universe, the peace-​loving Federation is replaced by an evil Empire, torture is regularly used as discipline, and Mr. Spock has a goatee.

Why do I ask?

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