From: Stephen Martin (ilium@juno.com)
Date: Sun 07 Sep 1997 - 09:10:52 EEST
To All:
The unpublished Oceans Book has about 2-3 pages on Teleos. Not a whole
lot of info.
I submitted a number of Teleosian myths for Tales of the Reaching Moon
10, but they didn't quite have enough space to include them. If I do a
Volume Water of The Book of Drastic Resolutions after the Volume
Darkness, I had planned to include them there. They draw heavily on the
unpublished info, being a mythic explanation of some of the cultural
practices of the Teleosians.
To sum up the Teleosians, they are of six different colors. Each color
feels that all of their neighbors are wicked, evil, bad, or tacky. The
Blues feel that the Oranges are ugly, the Purples are stupid, etc. These
are examples, not actually drawn from the article.
The problem is that when two Blues have children, the children only have
a 1/6 chance of being Blue -- they could just as easily be Red, Green,
Purple, Yellow, or Orange. Understandably, this disgusts all of the
Teleosians.
So, once a year all the Teleosians with children go to a central meeting
There are also yellow elves and dragonewts on the island, though I don't
ground, and trade children. The only problem is that the tribal size is
not even. So, a Green might bring one baby and go away with one, but a
Purple might go away with two or three, and a Red might not get one at
all.
think the humans have much to do with them.
Stephen Martin
ilium@juno.com
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