Corwin's Animal?

iadagon · May 06, 2009, 03:40:33 PM

There is a point in one of the books where Corwin is looking at a tapastry where a stag is is being pulled down by hounds...i think the quote is something like"usually i am all hound". I think his animal is likely a black hound.

weilide · May 06, 2009, 03:48:16 PM

Quote from: iadagon;300169There is a point in one of the books where Corwin is looking at a tapastry where a stag is is being pulled down by hounds...i think the quote is something like"usually i am all hound". I think his animal is likely a black hound.

I like that! Well observed.

RPGPundit · May 07, 2009, 12:34:23 AM

Another good choice!

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RPGPundit · May 07, 2009, 12:34:25 AM

Another good choice!

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Nihilistic Mind · May 07, 2009, 12:57:56 AM

I thought "Crow" right away after reading the first post. I could see a black dog be Eric's thing rather than Corwin's, but it's not off-base either.

RPGPundit · May 07, 2009, 01:45:25 PM

Yes, Eric's would have been the Weir.

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gabriel_ss4u · May 07, 2009, 05:52:53 PM

a picture's worth 1000 words, so here's 2k worth;

gabriel_ss4u · May 07, 2009, 06:02:43 PM

Quote from: iadagon;300169There is a point in one of the books where Corwin is looking at a tapastry where a stag is is being pulled down by hounds...i think the quote is something like"usually i am all hound". I think his animal is likely a black hound.

LOL; that was an allusion towards his luck, (usually being bad, as the stag being taken down by the hounds, and usually on the receiving end.) I think it was stated as thus. I need to search it out.

SunBoy · May 15, 2009, 05:48:14 AM

I read it as the dawning of a feeling of pity for the stag, which he hadn't experienced before, ("all hound" as in rooting for them); which would be in turn an allusion to his "softening" throughout the books. Though it could be read as an allusion to his being used to be the hunter, merciless and unrelenting, and to his feeling at that point more like the prey, the victim.

Love your avatar, BTW.

RPGPundit · May 15, 2009, 01:45:59 PM

I think Sun Boy's got it right. Corwin was always the "hound" in the sense that he was always in favour of the big guy, might makes right, etc. and then he starts softening over the course of the novels.

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gabriel_ss4u · May 16, 2009, 10:38:46 AM

Great points... it is somewhat of an allegorical painting in many different senses.
Any idea on which book & chapter the paintings from, I need a re-read of it.
AAMOF, I was going to restart reading the series again, anyone wanna join me, we could post weekly comments, 1 chapter to comment on a week. (not that I read that slow), or what-ever's clever. Sort of a running analysis of the series.

<The saying is; "Blimpie's... Eat Fresh"
(Just ta let ya in on that nuance')
I used to have 2 animated smiley heads fencing back & forth... but when I came back to the site, my last avatar was gone, I chose this from my pool of cool 1's.>>

SunBoy · May 17, 2009, 07:12:59 AM

Nope, haven't got Blimpie's, though we do have Subways. It's Subway, eat fresh, actually

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I'd love to do the series thing, but I'm playing in a campaign placed in that timeline, and given that I've already read them twice, doing it yet again would sorely try my focus (as in, remembering what my character doesn't know). Maybe some other time.
And the scene is, IIRC, near the end of Sign, though I can't be sure right now.

gabriel_ss4u · May 18, 2009, 05:34:31 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;300305Yes, Eric's would have been the Weir.

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It has never been established that the Weirmonken were from Eric.
It can be assumed... but it was stated in the novel the "weir" were Eric's. Not the "Weirmonken"... which may or may not be related to those beings.
I had always envisioned them as being Abyssal shape-shifters more ancient than the Chaos Lords.
(It's so hard to find canon things that go bump in the night... hmmm, sounds like a new thread.)

SunBoy · May 19, 2009, 09:03:40 AM

Quote from: Roger ZelaznyI locked my room behind me and headed for the stairs. Candles flickered, and the faded stag who had been dying for centuries on the tapestry to my right looked back on the faded dogs who had been pursuing him for approximately as long. Sometimes my sympathies are with the stag; usually though, I am all dog. Have to have the thing restored one of these days.

It's in The Hand of Oberon, Chapter Four, near the end. Totally different of what I recalled. 'Sometimes my sympathies..." Corwin wasn't that mean, after all... New thread material.