From: Sérgio Mascarenhas (sermasalmeida@mail.telepac.pt)
Date: Thu 07 Aug 1997 - 01:56:57 EEST
Here I try to conciliate three different views on ducks into a
- - Ducks resulted from a golden age curse when they lost the hability to
The basic statement is that yes, ducks resulted from a golden age curse
single coherent view. the three positions are:
fly; they are happy like that.
- - Ducks resulted from a golden age curse when they lost the hability to
fly; they are not happy and want to recover the hability to flight.
- - Ducks are a product of EWF magic.
when they lost the hability to fly and to lay eggs. They lived in
Ganderland south-east of the spike.
After the curse they split into two families:
- - A family followed Drulkazan (this is my invention); Drulkazan accepted to
be wingless. He called his family Drulz the Proud Walkers. They headed
north-west and correspond to the description I've been posting in Duck Mini
Pack. When they befriended Zong, Drulkazan changed the name of his family
to Druluz. They reside in DP north of Sartar, south-west of Dagori Inkarth.
- - A second family followed Durulzan. Durulzan longed for his wings and
didn't completely accept his new condition. They are called Durulz the
Wingless. They may correspond to the description of ducks portraied by
Michael
Cule. When the spike exploded they wandered and eventually they entered DP
from the south. When they found their relatives, they settled on the space
north of Shadow Plateau near the confluence of the Stream and the Creek.
They adapted to the local theyalan orlanthi culture (not to my Druluz
variant of the Five Duck Friends).
In historical times and until the second age nobody south of the Shadow
Plateau
knew about the existance of ducks.
In the EWF Delecti took a particular interest on Durulz the wingless. They
were a model for his own experiments. It was through Delecti that they
acknowledged the existance of keets. That was a good notice and it arose
their interest on the far east (in relation with their myths concerning the
recovering of wings).
The Dragon Kill War killed all humans living in DP - the humans that knew
that ducks had lived there from before time. When humans re-entered the
pass, they found ducks there. It is natural that they took them for beast
men. That idea was reinforced when scholars found that all references to
ducks were contained in EWF documents and related them with their protector
Delecti, creator of bestmen. That explains why humans started to think that
ducks were his creation.
Ducks didn't contradict that idea. First, nobody asked them. Second, when
they said they weren't Delecti's creation, nobody believed them. Third, if
men thought they were related to Delecti, men would be more careful when
dealing with them.
Meanwhile, Durulz the wingless started to migrate south in direction of the
sea, looking for a way to east. But the closing of the oceans annulated
their efforts.
What about keets? I see two possibilities:
1- they are a third duck family that, for some reason, wasn't cursed in the
golden age. When the darkness came, they were blessed with arms instead of
wings. That way they could hide and escape more easily their enemies. They
retained the hability to lay eggs.
2- they are not ducks but a different species of birds. When the darkness
came, they were blessed with arms instead of wings. That way they could
hide and escape more easily their enemies. They retained the hability to
lay eggs. In this case, Durulz the Wingless are wrong in thinking that
keets are also ducks.
Sergio Mascarenhas
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