(Cobalt Mountains) - [PLC]
Others tossed darts at the spread-eagled body of a young Cobalt Mountain witch.
Pg#9
(Dance of the Fourteen Silken Movements) - [FEST]
In a little cleared space a garlanded courtesan of the Kachique littoral danced the Dance of the Fourteen Silken Movements to the music of flutes.
Pg#9
(Deodand) - [MON]
In the shadow of a balcony a girl barbarian of East Almery embraced a man blackened and in a leather harness as a Deodand of the forest.
***
On a terrace some stood looking into a sunken pool where a pair of captured Deodands, their skin like oiled jet, paddled and glared...
Pg#9
(Dying Earth) - [PLC]
They were gay, these people of waning earth, feverishly merry, for infinite might was close at hand, when the red sun should finally flicker and go black.
Pg#9
(East Almery) - [PLC]
The streets surged with the wine-flushed populace, costumed in a multitude of bizarre modes... In the shadow of a balcony a girl barbarian of East Almery embraced a man blackened and in a leather harness as a Deodand of the forest.
Pg#9
(Fire-flies, blue) - [MON]
From the balconies dangled flower chains and cages of blue fire-flies.
Pg#9
(Kaiin, City of) - [TWN]
...It was night in white-walled Kaiin, and festival time. Orange lanterns floated in the air, moving as the breeze took them. From the balconies dangled flower chains and cages of blue fire-flies. The streets surged with the wine-flushed populace, costumed in a multitude of bizarre modes.
***
...At a tavern he refreshed himself with biscuits and wine; then he made for the palace of kandive the golden.
Pg#9
(Kaiin, Lords of) - [ORG]
Through the arcade he slipped into the grand salon where the lords of Kaiin made merry like the throngs of the street.
Pg#9
(Kandive the Golden, prince) - [NPC]
Name mentioned
Pg#9
(Kandive the Golden, prince - Palace of) - [CSTL]
The palace loomed before him, every window and balcony aglow with light.
...Through the arcade he slipped, into the grand salon, where the lords of Kaiin made merry like the throngs of the street. Turjan threaded the rainbow of silk, velour, sateen, watching the play with amusement. On a terrace some stood looking into a sunken pool...
...In alcoves beflowered girls offered synthetic love to wheezing old men, and elsewhere others lay stupified by the dreampowders. Nowhere did Turjan find prince Kandive. Through the palace he wandered, room after room, until at last in an upper chamber he came upon the tall golden-bearded prince...
Pg#9
(Kauchique) - ?
The streets surged with the wind-flushed populace, costumed in a multitude of bizarre modes... In a little cleared space a garlanded courtesan of the Kachique littoral danced the Dance of the Fourteen Silken Movements to the music of flutes.
Pg#9
(Lanterns, Orange) - [ITM][SPL]
Orange lanterns floated in the air, moving as the breeze took them.
Pg#9
(Melantine) - [PLC]?
The streets surged with the wind-flushed populace, costumed in a multitude of bizarre modes. Here was a Melantine bargeman...
Pg#9
(Occupation) - [JOB]
...bargeman
...warrior
...courtesan
...witch
Pg#9
(Pandelume) - [NPC]
Name Mentioned
Pg#9
(Phandaal's Mantle of Stealth) - [SPL]
So, uttering Phandaal's Mantle of Stealth, he faded from the sight of all men.
Pg#9
(Santanil) - [NPC]
Male resident of Kaiin
Pg#9
(Turjan of Miir) - [NPC]
Name Mentioned
Pg#9
(Valdaran's Green Legion) - [ORG]
The streets surged with the wind-flushed populace, costumed in a multitude of bizarre modes... here a warrior of Valdaran's Green Legion.
Pg#9
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Monday, July 30, 2012
Vance's Dying Earth, Reference Notes - Pg#7-8
(Ascolais, Land of) - [PLC]
"A man lives in the land of Ascolais, not far from your castle Miir."
"...Who is this Man?"
"...Prince Kandive the Golden."
Pg#7
(Blue Stone, Amulet of carved) - [ITM][SPL]
"... an Amulet of carved blue stone."
Pg#7
Kandive wears this amulet hidden below his singlet. When an enemy appears he takes it out to display on his chest, such is the potency of the charm. No matter what else, do not gaze on this amulet, either before or after you take it, on pain of most hideous consequence."
Pg#8
(Crystal)- [ITM][SPL]
"Extend your hand," said the voice. Turjan did so, and felt a hard object placed therein. "When your mission is accomplished, crush this crystal and at once you will find yourself in this room."
Pg#8
(Embelyon, Land of) - [PLC]
He found the next room to be circular and high-domed with the varying lights of Embelyon pouring down through sky-transparancies.
Pg#8
(Kain, City of) - [TWN]
"When you wake, you will be in the city Kaiin."
Pg#8
(Kandive the Golden, Prince) - [NPC]
"A man lives in the land of Ascolais..."
"...about his neck hangs an amulet of carved blue stone."
Pg#7
"Kandive wears this amulet hidden below his singlet. When an enemy appears he takes it out to display on his chest..."
Pg#8
(Miir, Castle) - [CSTL]
"...the land of Ascolais, not far from your Castle Miir."
Pg#7
(Pandelume) - [NPC]
"No one may gaze on Pandelume. It is the law."
Pg#7
Pandelume's voice was amused. "I. Too," he replied, "have vats where I old life into varied forms. This girl T'Sais I created, but I wrought carelessly, with a flaw in the synthesis."
Pg#8
(Pandelume's Manse) - [CSTL]
"Pandelume dwells beside the stream..."
...Soon he came to a long low manse of red stone backed by dark trees. As he approached the door swung open.
...So Turjan wonderingly entered the manse of Pandelume. He found himself in a tapestried chamber, bare of furnishing save a single settee. No one came to greet him. A closed door stood at the opposite wall...
Pg#7
"...In a moment open this door, enter, and move to the pattern pf runes on the floor."
Turjan performed as he was bid. He found the next room to be circular and high-domed with the varying lights of Embelyon pouring down through sky-transparancies.
Pg#8
(Pandelume's Vats) - [ITM][SPL]
"I too," he replied, "have vats where I mold life into varied forms."
Pg#8
(T'Sais) - [MON][NPC]
Pandelume's creation
"As I approached your dwelling, a woman of insane fury wished to kill me. This I would not permit and she departed in rage. Who is this woman and why is she thus?"
Pandelume's voice was amused. "I. Too," he replied, "have vats where I old life into varied forms. This girl T'Sais I created, but I wrought carelessly, with a flaw in the synthesis. So she climbed from the vat with a warp in her brain, in this manner: what we hold to be beautiful seems to her loathsome and ugly, and what we find ugly is to her intolerably vile, in a degree that you and I cannot understand. She finds the world a bitter place, peopled with shapes of direst malevolence."
Pg#8
(Turjan of Miir) - [NPC]
Name Mentioned
Pg#7
Name Mentioned
Pg#8
(Turjan's Vats) - [ITM]
"For some time I have been striving to create humanity in my vats. Yet always I fail, from ignorance of the agent that binds and orders the patterns. This master-matrix must be known to you; therefore I come to you for guidance."
Pg#7
"A man lives in the land of Ascolais, not far from your castle Miir."
"...Who is this Man?"
"...Prince Kandive the Golden."
Pg#7
(Blue Stone, Amulet of carved) - [ITM][SPL]
"... an Amulet of carved blue stone."
Pg#7
Kandive wears this amulet hidden below his singlet. When an enemy appears he takes it out to display on his chest, such is the potency of the charm. No matter what else, do not gaze on this amulet, either before or after you take it, on pain of most hideous consequence."
Pg#8
(Crystal)- [ITM][SPL]
"Extend your hand," said the voice. Turjan did so, and felt a hard object placed therein. "When your mission is accomplished, crush this crystal and at once you will find yourself in this room."
Pg#8
(Embelyon, Land of) - [PLC]
He found the next room to be circular and high-domed with the varying lights of Embelyon pouring down through sky-transparancies.
Pg#8
(Kain, City of) - [TWN]
"When you wake, you will be in the city Kaiin."
Pg#8
(Kandive the Golden, Prince) - [NPC]
"A man lives in the land of Ascolais..."
"...about his neck hangs an amulet of carved blue stone."
Pg#7
"Kandive wears this amulet hidden below his singlet. When an enemy appears he takes it out to display on his chest..."
Pg#8
(Miir, Castle) - [CSTL]
"...the land of Ascolais, not far from your Castle Miir."
Pg#7
(Pandelume) - [NPC]
"No one may gaze on Pandelume. It is the law."
Pg#7
Pandelume's voice was amused. "I. Too," he replied, "have vats where I old life into varied forms. This girl T'Sais I created, but I wrought carelessly, with a flaw in the synthesis."
Pg#8
(Pandelume's Manse) - [CSTL]
"Pandelume dwells beside the stream..."
...Soon he came to a long low manse of red stone backed by dark trees. As he approached the door swung open.
...So Turjan wonderingly entered the manse of Pandelume. He found himself in a tapestried chamber, bare of furnishing save a single settee. No one came to greet him. A closed door stood at the opposite wall...
Pg#7
"...In a moment open this door, enter, and move to the pattern pf runes on the floor."
Turjan performed as he was bid. He found the next room to be circular and high-domed with the varying lights of Embelyon pouring down through sky-transparancies.
Pg#8
(Pandelume's Vats) - [ITM][SPL]
"I too," he replied, "have vats where I mold life into varied forms."
Pg#8
(T'Sais) - [MON][NPC]
Pandelume's creation
"As I approached your dwelling, a woman of insane fury wished to kill me. This I would not permit and she departed in rage. Who is this woman and why is she thus?"
Pandelume's voice was amused. "I. Too," he replied, "have vats where I old life into varied forms. This girl T'Sais I created, but I wrought carelessly, with a flaw in the synthesis. So she climbed from the vat with a warp in her brain, in this manner: what we hold to be beautiful seems to her loathsome and ugly, and what we find ugly is to her intolerably vile, in a degree that you and I cannot understand. She finds the world a bitter place, peopled with shapes of direst malevolence."
Pg#8
(Turjan of Miir) - [NPC]
Name Mentioned
Pg#7
Name Mentioned
Pg#8
(Turjan's Vats) - [ITM]
"For some time I have been striving to create humanity in my vats. Yet always I fail, from ignorance of the agent that binds and orders the patterns. This master-matrix must be known to you; therefore I come to you for guidance."
Pg#7
Friday, July 27, 2012
Vance's Dying Earth, Reference Notes - Pg#3-4
References Notes from Vance's Tales of The Dying Earth - Orb Omnibus Edition
(The Beautiful Female Body) - [MON]
...whose intestines trailed out into the nutrient solution like seeking fibrils...
Turjan's creation
Pg#4
(The Boneless Creature) [MON]
The pulsing surface of its brained exposed...
Turjan's creation
Pg#3
(Call to the Violent Cloud) - [SPL]
Pg#4
(The Creature in the Cage) - [MON]
(Turjan's creation)
It was a thing to arouse pity - a great head on a small spindly body with weak rheumy eyes and a flabby button of a nose. The mouth hung slackly wet, the skin glistened waxy pink...
Pg#3
(Derna) - [RVR]
River
Pg#3
(Embelyon, Land of) - [PLC]
Where Pandelume dwells
Pg#4
(The Inverted Inside-Out Creature) [MON]
Turjan's creation
Pg#4
(Miir) - [CSTL]
Turjan's Castle
Pg#3
(Pandelume) - [NPC]
"There is one called Pandelume, who knows all the spells, all the incantations, cantrips, runes and thaumaturgies that have ever wrenched and molded space..."
"He dwells in the land of Embelyon... but where this land lies, no one knows."
One may ask anything of Pandelume, and Pandelume will answer - provided that the seeker performs the service Pandelume requires, and Pandelume drives a hard bargain.
Pg#4
(Sage) - [NPC]
Pg#4
(Spells) - [SPL]
In ages gone a thousand spells were known to sorcery. Today a hundred spells remain to man's knowledge...
He stared down at the characters and they burned with an urgent power, pressing off the page as if frantic to leave the dark solitude of the book.
Turjan closed the book, forcing the spell back into oblivion.
Pg#4
(The Thing All Eyes) - [MON]
Turjan's creation
Pg#3
(Turjan of Miir) - [NPC]
Pg#3
Turjan's brain could know but four at a time... (spells)
...robed himself with a short blue cape, tucked a blade into his belt, fitted the amulet holding Laccodel's Rune to his wrist.
Pg#4
(Turjan's Spellbooks) - [SPL][ITM]
The tomes which held Turjan's sorcery lay on a long table of black steel or were thrust helter-skelter into shelves. There were volumes compiled by many wizards of the past, untidy folios collected by the Sage, leather-bound librams setting forth the syllables of a hundred powerful spells...
Pg#4
(Turjan's Study) [PLC]
Turjan... descended to his study, a long low hall with stone walls and a stone floor deadened by a thick russet rug. The tomes which held Turjan's sorcery lay on the long table of black steel or were thrust helter-skelter into shelves.
Pg#4
(The Beautiful Female Body) - [MON]
...whose intestines trailed out into the nutrient solution like seeking fibrils...
Turjan's creation
Pg#4
(The Boneless Creature) [MON]
The pulsing surface of its brained exposed...
Turjan's creation
Pg#3
(Call to the Violent Cloud) - [SPL]
Pg#4
(The Creature in the Cage) - [MON]
(Turjan's creation)
It was a thing to arouse pity - a great head on a small spindly body with weak rheumy eyes and a flabby button of a nose. The mouth hung slackly wet, the skin glistened waxy pink...
Pg#3
(Derna) - [RVR]
River
Pg#3
(Embelyon, Land of) - [PLC]
Where Pandelume dwells
Pg#4
(The Inverted Inside-Out Creature) [MON]
Turjan's creation
Pg#4
(Miir) - [CSTL]
Turjan's Castle
Pg#3
(Pandelume) - [NPC]
"There is one called Pandelume, who knows all the spells, all the incantations, cantrips, runes and thaumaturgies that have ever wrenched and molded space..."
"He dwells in the land of Embelyon... but where this land lies, no one knows."
One may ask anything of Pandelume, and Pandelume will answer - provided that the seeker performs the service Pandelume requires, and Pandelume drives a hard bargain.
Pg#4
(Sage) - [NPC]
Pg#4
(Spells) - [SPL]
In ages gone a thousand spells were known to sorcery. Today a hundred spells remain to man's knowledge...
He stared down at the characters and they burned with an urgent power, pressing off the page as if frantic to leave the dark solitude of the book.
Turjan closed the book, forcing the spell back into oblivion.
Pg#4
(The Thing All Eyes) - [MON]
Turjan's creation
Pg#3
(Turjan of Miir) - [NPC]
Pg#3
Turjan's brain could know but four at a time... (spells)
...robed himself with a short blue cape, tucked a blade into his belt, fitted the amulet holding Laccodel's Rune to his wrist.
Pg#4
(Turjan's Spellbooks) - [SPL][ITM]
The tomes which held Turjan's sorcery lay on a long table of black steel or were thrust helter-skelter into shelves. There were volumes compiled by many wizards of the past, untidy folios collected by the Sage, leather-bound librams setting forth the syllables of a hundred powerful spells...
Pg#4
(Turjan's Study) [PLC]
Turjan... descended to his study, a long low hall with stone walls and a stone floor deadened by a thick russet rug. The tomes which held Turjan's sorcery lay on the long table of black steel or were thrust helter-skelter into shelves.
Pg#4
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