Leechblade
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I wonder how Bahamut will interact with that situation....
Scaling Up
- Thread starter Kryslin
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Support the change in education, just understand that you're fighting an uphill battle against Pop Culture Reference that's got 50 years+ of traction behind it in movies/tv/film/etc.
Again, IMHO, a distinction that (should) only matter to gun-nuts...and those in the industry (who, if they aren't gun-nuts, probably understand the point I make above).
A pro Spec-Ops soldier wouldn't make the mistake of using something that went "beep" before detonation on something like a dead-man switch.
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FaerieKnight79
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Unless of course that he didn't have access to anything silent.
hakunoX
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okay... what the heck?
Valimar?
Moria?
why he would put those two?
i mean, Valimar is the eternal home from the elves of LoR where only GIMLI manage to get there from the darves (and ony Frodo and Sam from the "Humans") and Moria is the fortress/home of the Darves!
how the hell he got aprovation from both races?!
they hate each other!
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Lots of people(s) hate each other but still "buy" from the same supplier...if they're known to make the best (insert product here).
Kryslin
[Has Delusions of Authorship]
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It's a variable sword with a Japanese theme. A variable sword is a sinclair molecular chain of carbon (a buckytube) wrapped in a slaver force field, from Niven's Known Space universe. Impossibly stiff, impossibly sharp, and can cleave large molecules, and the blade is anywhere from fully retracted to 10 meters in length. Very nasty. Add in Armsy's nanothorn system, and something will get taken apart in a rather lethal fashion...
It's the same blade Oni Lee used against Bakuda at the end of Arc4.
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Hmm, Valimar would be the city of the city of many bells in Valinor where many of the Valar and Maia live and Aulë the Valar smith is the one who brought the dwarves into existence.
Kryslin
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Ok, a bit of a delve into the lore of Middle Earth, aka The Silmarillion...
Aule is the vala in charge of craft and invention. He is also the creator of the dwarves. In fact, he had created the dwarves before Eru had brought forth the elves, so Eru told him that even though the dwarves were still a part of his creation, but he need to wait a bit first. Aule agreed, and put the fathers of the Dwarves in the deep places of the earth, to awaken when the time was right.
And Imp'd by Alane1.
However, a more important clue as to who this is is in the first location mention, and the website URL. Ironically, descriptions of the two beings are surprisingly similar...
hakunoX
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not those two.
literally
not those two.
i don't know abou the Dungeons&Dragons world, but LoR but by the time Moria and Valimar found each other the king elven "Thorden" (is been a little while i read the Silmarillion sorry if i mess the name) massacrated hundreds of darves (yep, Elfs where the first) and they started a war who has been continuing for...
lets see, the year when the shrine was founded was the 1543 of the west second Age... it happened 300 years until Bilbo manage to help them to recover the Lone Mountain... the first age was 4000 years...
about five thousdent years...
and that is not kidding, LoR AND darwves DO NOT GET EACH OTHER!
until the recovery of the Lone Mountain they KILLED EACH OTHER ON SIGHT!
they only reason (and really ONLY) of why Thorin an company was left alive was because they were with Gandalf.
Edit: gramar fixed... why i even downloaded Gramarly?
anyway, just clarifiying, my family loves Tolkien's literature universe, and my sister used to read me those books to sleep (i am weird, sue me! i have a Lawyer!) and i remind very well than that war only had two cease to fire (and nope, Aulë do not intervine to stop the war, in fact ouside of te first 40 pages of the silmarilion (my siter edition) the Maïa do not intervine a lot, that war only stoped by... wait, i will ask my sister...
okay, done: that was stopped and devolved into a cold war by the time Sauron rose in Mordor, the Dwarves fough along side the elvens (just for a while) against him; even then the Battle of the Five Armies is when both races stoped being on war.
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FaerieKnight79
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First of all, dwarves is not the same as "darves". Second of all, Frodo and Samwise are not humans, they are hobbits. You forget that Bilbo Baggins also traveled West with the elves.
Second of all, Moria was a Dwarven fortress/stronghold. But not the only one.
Third of all, just because Gimli was the first dwarf to travel West, doesn't mean dwarves and elves hate each other. Antagonistic to a degree, yes. Hate, not so much by the time of Lord of the Rings. Otherwise the elves would never have allowed Thorin Oakenshield and his party to rest with them. Nor would any dwarves been invited to the meeting regarding the One Ring being found.
Fourth of all, @hakunoX... you really need to learn to edit prior posts rather then making a new post if you have more to add and nobody else has posted. Posting multiple times in a row without letting others respond is against this site's rules after all.
MaimakteriAnn
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Gond? Urgh least innovative God of invention on any plane.
Kryslin
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@hakunoX COuld you delete one of your posts, please? It appears you've double posted, or your browser burped...
Dwarves and Elves did not kill each other on sight. There have been many unfortunate misunderstandings and double dealings between Elves and Dwarves in Middle Earth. There is a lot of mistrust between the two, but they've managed to wrok together for the important things.
No one knows exactly how long the 1st Age was, because they only started counting the years when the sun first rose. The 2nd Age was another 5-8 thousand years, where Dwarves and Elves did get along - Hollin/Eregion and Moria in particular. Of course, a certain meddling fallen maiar made short work of that alliance, finally rousing the men of Numenor to take care of him, and then getting corrupted themselves, causing the sinking of Numenor and leading to the Last Alliance of Men and Elves, and the taking of the One Ring from Sauron.
The 3rd Age is Sauron playing the long game, and slowly destroying the kingdoms of men, el;ves and dwarve to Ruin. The wizards of Middle Earth appeared about this time, and slowly began to help wherever they could. The expedition to Erebor (The lonely mountain) was to deny Sauron the use of Smaug, the greatest of the remaining dragons at the time.
Of course, at the end of the 3rd Age, Elves and Dwarves diminish, and the 4th age is the age of Man...
Dwarves and Elves did not kill each other on sight. There have been many unfortunate misunderstandings and double dealings between Elves and Dwarves in Middle Earth. There is a lot of mistrust between the two, but they've managed to wrok together for the important things.
No one knows exactly how long the 1st Age was, because they only started counting the years when the sun first rose. The 2nd Age was another 5-8 thousand years, where Dwarves and Elves did get along - Hollin/Eregion and Moria in particular. Of course, a certain meddling fallen maiar made short work of that alliance, finally rousing the men of Numenor to take care of him, and then getting corrupted themselves, causing the sinking of Numenor and leading to the Last Alliance of Men and Elves, and the taking of the One Ring from Sauron.
The 3rd Age is Sauron playing the long game, and slowly destroying the kingdoms of men, el;ves and dwarve to Ruin. The wizards of Middle Earth appeared about this time, and slowly began to help wherever they could. The expedition to Erebor (The lonely mountain) was to deny Sauron the use of Smaug, the greatest of the remaining dragons at the time.
Of course, at the end of the 3rd Age, Elves and Dwarves diminish, and the 4th age is the age of Man...
Did you intend for that link to take us to a search for Space: 1999 villains?
hakunoX
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browser burped?
okay, that is a good way to descrive what happened, when i press "post reply" it start normally, but it do not send, so i press a second time and there is two post now...
anyway.
i already erased/edit the posts!
and sorry, writting fast make the Dwarves change into Darves.
anyway @FaerieKnight79 hobbits are humans, a sub race, but humans, there exist 4 human races on Middle earth: the mens of the east (which are described on a few cards as black-skined people who were tricked by Sauron and Morduk (again, sorry if a bastardised the name) into beliving them) the rohirrim , the numerorians (who are close emparenting with Elvens) AND the Hobbits, in fact Tolkien confirmed this on the "diary of a geanoly(i deativate Grammarlly so sorry for the typos) of the Shrine by Meriadoc Brandybucks" where Merry confirms than Hobbits where a branch of the ROhirrin who were close to them.
Moria IS, by the time of Gimli going to Valimar another Dwarve tried to reclaim Moria and managed to do it.
and in the Silmarillion great part of the tales when Dwarves and Elvens appear together (and that was not Sauron work, back then nor Sauron or his Master were acting) they were on war because one of the kings of the elvens was really really greedy and stole a lot of things in order to "make his Silmarilion shine" (this is not what is written in a literal way, i resuming his way of thinking) which the dwarves answering by stealing one of the Silmarillions and starting the whole conflic which Morduk (again, sorry) and Sauron took adventage.
yeah, great part of the dissaster was thanks to Feanör but the war was already in place by the time Sauron and his boss started their plans, in fact, the war was for that.
@Kryslin which Maïar meddling? if i remenber we the whole conflict was because Feanör was a greddy bastard which infected Beren's father in Law with his greedyness.
I'm pretty sure it's referring to the island in Faerun. Which suggests that this may have been Gond, or someone similar. Or, possibly, the Overgod of crafting that Gond is a face of.Did you intend for that link to take us to a search for Space: 1999 villains?
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Bit of a typo in there…
a-sym-metric, not assy-metric.
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Not too bad. For a moment there, I thought you were going on a small crossover jaunt with @RHJunior's The Warcrafted. But a blacksmith who's kept pace with all the latest crafting techniques makes just as much sense. Although, I have to wonder if he's renting space as a convenient extradimensional access point, or if Tia just tucked a portal in her closet and forgot it was there.
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Jadesteele
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I'm preeeeety sure Tia and Bara have very little interest in having anything to do with the dragons of Azaroth - most of them seem to be Nutz....
David DeLaney
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Oh, I'm sure that somewhere the gun is over the Bard-arm.
I choose to believe that that was Stabbypuppy's BACKside. For reasons. Which can be partially summed up as "yipe yipe yipe whiiiiine!!".
that
Dave, halpfully
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While I have no problem with all the obscure D&D bits, am afraid that your last reference went completely over my head. The only "Bob" I could think of was "Bob the Builder" from the UK TV show for children.
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"Bob" is pretty obviously a pseudonym, one that would raise a few fewer eyebrows then "John" for the name of a Smith.
On the island of Lantan, there is the center for worship of a Deity of Knowledge sometimes known as the Wonderbringer, and formally called Gond, God of Invention. Who's preferred avatar just so happens to be a red-haired blacksmith...
Also, I have seen the name Valimar used in respect to other settings, so it may be the case that this is referring to as branch on another world....
Prince Charon
Just zis guy, you know?
Re: clips versus magazines, I'm a bit surprised that I haven't seen this sort of response (perhaps I missed it): a 'clip' holds a stack of papers together temporarily, and a 'magazine' is a stack of papers semi-permanently held together to form a broad category of periodical.
(Historically, IIRC, the paper type of magazine was named for the artillery type of magazine.)
(Historically, IIRC, the paper type of magazine was named for the artillery type of magazine.)
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I Think it might be a reference to Destruction of the endless. in Sandman he uses the appearance of a tall broad shouldered man with red hair and beard. He had a theory that he had creation as a portfolio as well as destruction, and after humanity made the Manhattan project he went on a creation bender (Aussie - walk about) to counter the BOMB's development. it has been 20 years since i read the Vertigo comics (now owned by DC) so some details of time and reason are hazy.
Or he is Gond from Faerun, Half the Khazardun, Reoax of Krynn, Wayland the Smith, Karl Glittergold, or a God of Lankmar.
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