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singing_arda) wrote2014-11-13 12:08 am
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Question!
So, I'm just curious on the Sending... It sounds similar to the sanwe-latye of the Tolkien Elves, but are there limits on it? Distance; amount of information that can be sent? Does it work both ways, or it is outgoing only?
Re: Question!
I will copy paste from the wiki below, but the short summary:
Sending is a form of mental communication that elves can use to communicate with other elves, and with certain other creatures like the wolfriders can send with their wolves. A general sending is a communication between one elf and as many recipients as he or she chooses. If it is open, anyone who can hear sending can hear it. An elf can chose to make it a directed sending instead; that can not be spied upon except by the exceptionally strong. (Lord Winnowill being the primary, if not solitary, example) This can be over a wide distance, range dependant on the Elf. Windkin, having spent so long in the presence of the little Palace has a strong range. This form of sending usually shares words only, or ideas.
There is lock sending which is a deeper personal connection, and usually is with a small group that are proximate to each other. Lock sending can share memories and images.
Sending is also silent, physically.
Soul Names - if an elf holds the soul name of another elf, those two can communicate more closely, and over a greater distance.
Nothing can silence sending, save death. Even those who are out cold can send. May not be coherent, but they can send. Also, if an elf has ever sent to another elf before they can usually at least sense their mind if they are on the edges of their range. It's how Bearclaw is so certain that his mate is dead. Also for those who have had recognition - through sending they can feel it if their mate is BADLY injured or dies.
I think it is both ways, because I don't think that wolves can natively send, but Cutter and his wolf can communicate mentally both ways.
If someone astral projects, the distance for sending is based upon their focus/mind not their physical presence.
From the Wiki:
http://elfquest.wikia.com/wiki/Magic
Sending
Known users: Most elves.
Sending is a form of telepathic communication between elves. One cannot lie in sending, and it is difficult to hide your emotions in it; they are as much linked to the message as the words themselves. One can respond to Sending even when unconscious, though the coherency of the reply is unknown. [2] The distance that one can Send varies on an individual basis.
Sending is intrinsic to all elves. While some tribes may have lost the knowledge of how to Send, there has been no sign of any elf or tribe that cannot learn to Send. Shenshen, for example, was never able to Send for hundreds of years while living in the Sun Village, but she developed the ability shortly after being exposed to the Palace's magic for the first time. She was also able to receive and understand her sister Leetah's Sending before she herself was capable of doing so.
Richard Pini notes in The Big Elfquest Gatherum (article "Recognition, or How Loud is your Lizard?") that even an elf who has never experienced Sending can still make telepathic contact with another elf during Recognition.
Black-SendingEdit
Known users: Strongbow, Winnowill, Rayek A subsect of Sending, this twists the sending with hate, anger, or other powerful, negative emotions so that it causes pain when received by the target.
http://elfquest.com/read/index.php?s=Elfquest&p=12
http://s3.photobucket.com/user/pcoquelin/media/ELFIN%20POWERS/P04_Sending_GroupVisionSharing.png.html (His mother and the elf who he considers to be his father are both in that image)
http://www.lope.ca/halo/elfquest.jpg
http://s3.photobucket.com/user/pcoquelin/media/ELFIN%20POWERS/P34_Sending_FromElfToWolf.png.html
http://elfquest.com/read/index.php?s=Elfquest&p=6
http://elfquest.com/read/index.php?s=HY/HY05&p=7 (Eyes High sending to her unborn cub, Skywise)
http://elfquest.com/read/index.php?s=HY/HY05&p=8
http://elfquest.com/read/index.php?s=HY/HY05&p=11
http://elfquest.com/read/index.php?s=HY/HY05&p=12
http://elfquest.com/read/index.php?s=HY/HY05&p=20
http://elfquest.com/read/index.php?s=HY/HY05&p=21
Sending can be used for battles of wills, much like a staring contest.
If you need any more info, please feel free to ask. I've RPed with Sending so long, it's been ages since I had to go back to the source material for this specifically.
Two other things as general notes about sending (though as of now these won't be relevant to Windkin)
1 - Dreamberries - there is a berry native to his world that aids in sending. On their own they are mildly hallucinogenic when ingested in large quantities, or when turned into wine. As a berry or as juice, they can aid in sending in that it is easier to send full scenes with all the senses engaged if both the one sharing the memories/images and those receiving have imbibed. This is usually used in storytelling (also known as Howls among the Wolf Riders). When taken in large quantities or as a wine it affects sending about as much as you'd expect alcoholic hallucinogenic beverage to affect it. But it is kind of funny watching Cutter lose his mind thinking a Troll is Leetah >.>
2 - Speaking of Leetah, and Elves who have magic that acts on something outside the self, they generally channel it through sending. This is how a Healer knows how a wound was inflicted, and we see Eukar - a rock shifter - sending to the stone he is shaping, though the only response it gives is to take she shape he desired. When Ember is running through the caves it is indicated that it was shaped by a visual related to sending.
So yeah, that's all I can think of at the moment.
Re: Question!
Regarding flight, you don't specify his personal limitations on that, but these are the guidelines we've set for other flighted characters:
He can fly a max of 10-12 "days-by-foot" per day unburdened, and under ideal conditions. How you split that up into resting or gliding or whatnot is up to you. With a passenger or carrying a something heavy, keep it down to 5-7.
At that distance you'll be able to get to some of the first settlements outside of Deepwood so you can start mapping. On the map, that's about the length of Deepwood (27) to Lond Daer (28).
Does that sound reasonable?
Re: Question!
Approved!
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Re: Approved!