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I am sorry if an ornament is too small or too obscured to be recognizable for you, G0lden. Doesn't help much that the character was only seen three times so far ... and the pic I've used is from the cover of FQ #14. She's the "tree-elf" we've seen when the Call went out and it is not even clear whether she will be a villian. On the cover she looks like a zombie ... reason enough to use her.
I hope golden Leetah with "human" Shenshen and Voll in blue compensate for the puzzle. Blue for his mood and pale blues and feathers for Blue Mountain. Glad to read you like them.
Is puzzled myself ... which "old one of Timmain" are you talking about, G0lden?

Yeah, you've nailed it again, Redhead. I couldn't resist to use Treezombiefungus Lady NOW. However she will turn out in the end - she will always qualify as a monster with THAT look!

Happy New Year, Wolfie! Health, love, luck and happiness for you. Making the Elves and Trolls and other characters celebrate with us readers is a charming imagination - and a huge compliment!  
Shatter the spheres into pieces while Cutter's known world is shattered to pieces by TimmainTAM is the association I've aimed for. The baubles mirror each other while their shadows melt. Are they one or two? Will they merge or drift apart? This was one of the first moments I've chosen for the calendar - a must-do. There's only one left for Cutter + X and it will be an unexpected one ... and a pleasant surprise for you!
I'm glad Strongbow and Dart are so welcome ... I wasn't too sure to show a character only from behind. Mender is not really included but the green bauble automatically represents him if you know the scene.
When I've found this glass globe I simply knew that it would serve me well sooner or later. Now it was perfect to represent Abode - last not least thanks to Jeedai who made the world map fit on an actual ball back at the Original Scroll. Take a close look, Wolfie ... do you see the reflection of a human shadow inside the globe? This "personification" is like the cherry on the cream! ^^
The colors and substance of this TreeFungGirl found a perfect match in the ball and background of this ornament ... a decomposing morbid touch.
A golden couple that celebrates life and peace like no other- Woodlock and Rainsong are a heartwarming balance for the darker sides I like to encounter. They always bring sun and smiles.
Olbar, the grumpy caveman! Naah... for me he is one of the more intelligent Humans, learning and using his mind. I like him more and more.
The Sun sisters' bauble is one of my favorites ... the ornaments and the background have a magical vibe that fits the transformation scene perfectly. And Voll got an appropriate environment as well. Oh, he has sent me on a quest for it, I tell you! ^^


Three more days ... and a little bit longer. Stay with me and let's hit the home stretch together. All of you. Your company, eagerness and loving comments make this happen every year. *group hug*


A glimpse from the past into ...far? ...near? future ...



Jink drawn by Wendy Pini decades ago. Quote by WP too.

Oh! New cover for FQ #14 is released. I can't wait to see just what those Ents are... so I can radically alter them for Swift et al. Will be Great Holt be attacked by psycho hippy eco-terrorists? (And will I be able to get in some meta wisecrack about how damned convenient it is that we discover a whole new group of elves just around the metaphorical corner? Srsly, even insane and frothing at the mouth, Cutter finds MORE elves? Poor Sunstream, he'll never be out of dad's shadow.)

Why so complicated? RENAME the #12 and #13 thread now to "speculation" thread (means: in case the poll says so) and then someone will open the #12/#13 "discussion" thread. And #14 a.s.o. will be opened with the "right" headline.

If it helps others to feel more comfortable I'm fine with two threads per issue ... or how many are needed. *shrug*

Useful thread: A Breakdown of What's What by Skya



My Try of a Reader's Guide

It's not "the ultimative reader's guide" but good enough for a smooth read. I'll give you some information about the different series so you can decide by yourself.


Original Quest
Siege at Blue Montain
King of te Broken Wheel
Dreamtime - happens shortly after the return of the Palace ... awesome Wendy art
Hidden Years #4, #8, #9,5 and #10-15 - single issues filling gaps and giving background information for the time from the return of the Palace until the main story lines SHARDS and HIDDEN YEARS start. Read before starting with Shards and the rest of HY!

Main storyline - Shards (#1 til #15) and Hidden Years (from #16 til the end) - run parallel and influence each other.
Shards #10 / HY #24 and Shards #12 / HY #25 are directly connected - read the Shards issue before you look in the corresponding HY issue - spoiler warning!

About same time as Shards and Ember's Hidden Years storyline
New Blood #14-35 - Forevergreen Arc ... no direct connections with Shards/HY but it has necessary informations about the Sunvillagers' and Windkin's fate.
Would be no fault to read New Blood #11, #12, #13 before you start the Forevergreen Arc with NB #14.

Shards #16 gathers both the three story lines and the scattered elves.

Here you should read In All But Blood - it starts with Cutter's youth, a story about his early time in the Sunvillage, a story centering on Skywise somewhen after the return of the Palace. The last is the important one: Full Circle closes a time and knowledge gap between the end of SHARDS and the following stories ...

The Searcher and the Sword - following Cutter's tribe after Shards
Discovery - follows directly SatS

... that's what would make most sense for me to read in row from EQ1 until "present time" (= The Final Quest)


NOT on Digital EQ:
The Final Quest Prologue
Final Quest #1-24


more or less parallel with SatS / Discovery
Wild Hunt - following Ember's tribe after the Shards War
Mender's Tale (unfinished) - follows Wild Hunt
Recognition (Summer Special) - continues Wild Hunt
partly retold and more or less retconed by the Final Quest #1-2

The Forevergreen Story arc is more or less continued by
Worldpool - following some chars from the Forevergreen Arc - and
Fire-Eye (unfinished)
both probably "non-canon"



Other series and single issues

Tales from the Elves' wild past
Blood of Ten Chiefs
Two-Spear
Wolfrider! - read it!
By any other name (in the Readers Collection "In all but Blood")
Hidden Years #5, #6, #7, #9
#5 Starfall, Starrise - pre-EQ1 (story about Skywise and his parents' fate)
#6/7 How Shall I keep from Singing - High Ones' arrival and first years
#9 The Enemy's Face - story from Leetah's birth and youth
Homespun (in the Readers Collection "In all but Blood")

Spotlights on the time of the Long Wait (disappearance of the Palace until Big Sleep)
Hidden Years #1, #2, #3
#1 Wolfwood - during Long Wait (centering on Strongbow - I love it)
#2 Going Back - during Long Wait (Kahvi "visits" Sorrow's End again)
#3 Little Patch - during Long Wait (Tyleet's "cub")
The Jury (?)
New Blood #11, #12, #13
Kahvi

Background story of the Wavedancers
Wavedancers Issue #1
Wavedancers
Wavedancers - lost chapters (unfinished)
... it might be less puzzeling to read it after Discovery (some inconsistencies and retconning)

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Somewhen in not too far future
Rogue's Curse - following Rayek's journey after Shards/Final Quest

Far future
Jink
The Rebles
Futurequest (unfinished)

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I have not listed EVERYTHING here!

The rest of New Blood is a mix of Wild Past, Long Wait, various Misc stuff ... many of it considered non-canon

same for Bedtime Stories

Elfquest Volume 2 - containes stories that are mostly listed and reposted in collections (ask if you want to know more ... same for stories I missed to mention)

Kings Cross - a "What-If" / alternative universe story ...

Xanth - something totally different



There is no easy way to read through - you'll have to pick when you want to follow the timeline.

As you will notice some of the stories can be found in several topics. The Elfquest Vol. 2 issues have several ongoing stories in each issue - and then and now a single one. Many of these stories are gathered in collections:

Dreamtime, Wild Hunt, Wavedancers, Rogue's Curse, Wolfrider! to mention just a few.

You can stick with the gatherings to follow my suggestions ... Elfquest Vol. 2 is a read for completation when everything else is done in my opinion.


Don't hesitate to ask in case you need more information - or help to find some issues/collections.


Welcome to the pack Enjoy and have fun! Good read!

Stars and Snow-Yun ... this was Yun's thread, opened by ReenBladesong, on the original Scroll of Colors. Follow old discussions and see fanart from earlier times.

Visit Yun's bio page on Elfquest.com. #14 found

Here, for reference, I shall gather and present the exact and distinct scenes of magic-use, up to 'The Discovery'.
I will show only the scenes drawn by Wendy, because her work should have precedence..
..and because they are necessarily 'canon'.


Original Quest - #1 :
: Gliding (High One)
: Sending (Wolf Send)
: Sending (Group Send : call)
: Sending (Group Send : Sharing a vision

Original Quest - #2 :
: Sending (Individual call)
: Recognition
: Hypnotic trance (on elf)
: Emotion feeling
: Healing
: Light control

Original Quest - #3 :
: Very probable shape-changing magic highly charged on object (the 'Great Sun' item behind Savah shows changing patterns) - possible mind manipulation
: Levitation (on object)
: Hypnotic trance (on animal)
: Levitation (on animal)
: Possible Truth-telling
: Mind Probe
: Information : self-levitation was thought to be a lost power, among the Sun Folk

Original Quest - #4 :
: Sending (Dark Send)
: Possible emotion control (or more)
: Information : Magic can stagnate and turn into a monstruosity
: Magic monster (COMBINING powers)
: Sending (Special, intense, intimate call)
: Sending (Special call, by monster)
: Probable Watching over (by a dead elf, over a living one)
: Resistance to Dark Send

Original Quest - #5 :
: Plant Growth
: Soul Name
: Telescopic Vision
: Mind Control (on animal, pretended
: Mind Control (on animal, confirmed)
: Mind Search + Visual Projection + Voice Projection (probable - or a special form of Sending)

Original Quest - #6 :
: 'Going Out'
: Plant Control + Magic Feeling
: Sending (Lock-Send - Challenge

Original Quest - #7 :
: Tree Shaping
: Sending (from elf to wolf)

Original Quest - #8 :
: Magic Feeling (faint - familiar setting)
: Magic Feeling (confirmed - non familiar setting)
: Mental Link
: Mental Guiding

Original Quest - #9 :
: Magic Feeling (confirmed)

Original Quest - #10 :
: Magic of the preservers' cocoons
: Sending (Special, intimate, intense call - confirmed)
: Sending (Calling back images)
: Possible premonition
: Locked warning
: Preservers: a magically created species
: Sending (Dark Send - Torture)
: Tree Shaping (living wood into an object)

Original Quest - #11 :
: Sending (Dark Send - Stun)
: Rock Shaping (dedicated - Door effect)
: Sending (Dark Send - Piercing back)
: Sending (Group call to one)
: Anti-Healing
: Sending (Dark Send - multi-targetted) + Leetah's remark on anti-healing
: Gliding (Blue Mountain's Gliders)
: Sending (Dark Send - Kill)
: Healing (as an improvised Shield)
: Probable Prying on Sendings

Original Quest - #12 :
: Information : Locked Warning is mainly made of visual elements and feelings
: Information : Shaping and Healing are basically the same type of magic
: Semi-dead state Lethargy - used to enforce dedication of magic (here: VERY dedicated and limited Rock Shaping task)
: Flesh Shaping
: Sending (Lock Send)
: Sending (Intense, focussed, forcing)

Original Quest - #13 :
: Information : Going Out comes with deadly risks
: Emotion Feeling or more
: Sending (Deep Sending)
: Soul Name abuse
: Probable HARD metal Shaping
: Information : Ancient types of magic
: Combined magic : Rock Shaping + Levitation (complex, dedicated, + History effect)
: Information : Symbolic and memory effect, for the Egg
: Information : Magical semi-dead Lethargy helped by a potion
: Information : Healing tells much about genetics
: Resistance to Dark Send (killing version)
: Complete Self-Shaping (Plant - High One)
: Complete Self-Shaping (animal - High One) + Magically induced INTER-BREEDING
: Information : Probable Mind Manipulation

Original Quest - #14 :
: Information : Recognition reveals the soul
: Sending (Dark Send) - Mind Control (Oblivion)
: Going Out (Spirit Capture)
: Sending and Going Out (Spirit Seeking)
: Flesh Shaping (on animal)
: Tree Shaping (turning strangleweed vines into a living trap)
: Plant Control
: Going Out (Mind Touch)
: Healing (Mental Healing)
: Probable Near-Death Auto Healing

Original Quest - #15 :
: Open Sending (Sharing a vision)
: Magic Aura (Visual Detection of magic)
: Exchange of Soul names

Original Quest - #16 :
: Watching Over (confirmed)
: Magic Feeling
: Hypnotic Trance (on troll)
: Gliding (rough version)

Original Quest - #17 :
: Gliding (floating someone else at distance)
: Call of the Palace (confirmed)
: Possible Premonition
: Soul Name offering
: Possible Premonition (preserver)
: Gliding (heavy charge)
: Possible Hard Metal Shaping ('fusing metal to stone')

Original Quest - #18 :
: Rock Shaping (combined to shape the Palace's stone)
: Stone Feeling

Original Quest - #19 :
: Sending (Link)
: Gliding (lifting extreme weight)

Original Quest - #20 :
: Forced Recognition
: Spirit Feeling (High One)
: Information : Dead elf spirits choose or not where they go
: Information : those born out of Recognition attract interested spirits
: Extreme Longevity (preservers)
: Mind Linking + Visual Effects + Preserver cocoon's Think-Do + support by the 'Scroll' item, heavily charged with magic
: Information : Source and nature of magic
: Going Out (High Ones)
: Information : Origin of the Palace, of trolls and of preservers
: Preserver cocoon's Think-Do effect + 'out of time' effect
: Mental Link (from afar)


Siege at Blue Mountain - #1 :
: Possible Resistance to the Palace's call of dead spirits
: Power absorption (with the Egg as a support)

Siege at Blue Mountain - #2 :
: Sending Detection (long range)
: Mental Submission (by use of the Soul Name)
: Mind Probe (by the use of Mind Touch)
: Gliding (while asleep!)

Siege at Blue Mountain - #3 :
: Dark Send while Going Out!

Siege at Blue Mountain - #4 :
: Mental Healing (calming down)
: Information : magic is asleep in humans
: Genetic Change

Siege at Blue Mountain - #5 :
: Concentrating magic into an item
: Magic Feeling (in humans!)
: Gliding (very probably even inside cocoons!)
: Genetic Change (confirmed - with limits)
: Power Concentration (huge rock-shaping + floating)
: Gathering Power (Sending - demonstrating Dark Send)

Siege at Blue Mountain - #6 :
: Sending (gliders - strange limitation - preservers' cocoons)
: Sending Analysis (emotions)
: Possible information on magic - Control may be linked with need
: Same Soul for two bodies (possible reality / probable Mind Control trick)
: Tree Shaping - Anti-fire effect (+ effect of love on magic)

Siege at Blue Mountain - #7 :
: Mind Control trick (more probable)
: Egg as a memory holder (like the Scroll of colors - confirmed)
: Effect of will on group magic (focus)
: Mental Healing (emotions and need)
: What group magic can accomplish
: Egg meant to ABSORB the Palace, the elf spirits inside it, and their power
: Space and time travel (group magic)

Siege at Blue Mountain - #8 :
: Mind Control trick (confirmed)
: Group magic versus one (+ interesting remark: 'they KNOW her')
: Truth in Sending (Wolfrider savagery)
: Mental Healing (waking powers up)
: Healing (BOTH human and elf, at the same time!)
: Information : interesting after-effect
: Spirit Hosting
: The only difference is love (probable key for magic)


Kings of the Broken Wheel - #1 :
: Magic causes strange genetic effects
: Magic Feeling (by preservers)
: Fire Magic (Heat Wave - Group magic - by GLIDERS!)
: Floating (used for stopping the huge bolt) + EXTREME STRENGTH (manipulating that heavy bolt) (Group magic)
: Fire magic (Bolts - group magic - gliders or linked to Rayek)
: Shield (group magic)
: Mental Link + specific event near the Palace = triggering of a special effect

Kings of the Broken Wheel - #2 :
: Information : Timmain has more powerful fire magic than group
: Fire Magic (HUGE energy bolts - causing a huge chasm - group magic
: Freeing the dead gliders' spirits restores the Palace

Kings of the Broken Wheel - #3 :
: Shape Changing (High One - inside a preserver cocoon - confirmed as incredible feat)
: Sending (from far away and intensely so)
: Flying (Palace power)
: Reintegrating even an unwilling High One (Palace power)
: Extreme Velocity Travel (Palace power)
: Emotion Transfer (Spirits power)
: Emotion Transfer (confirmed + Interesting remark: dead elves barely remember, even recent and extreme events, like murder!

Kings of the Broken Wheel - #4 :
: Waking powers up (Palace power)
: Magic Vision (Palace power)
: Mind Control (forced sleep)
: Healing (another use of magic.. *sigh*)
: Rock Shaping (..the Palace - not so difficult, now!)
: Sending the Cry out (inside the Palace)
: Rock Shaping (..the Palace - SEPARATING a piece of it!)
: Disguising the Palace (interesting 'A PART of the new land' call..)

Kings of the Broken Wheel - #5 :
: Mind Transfer
: Mental Healing (Shutting mental door)
: Shield (Palace-induced power)
: Palace-induced effects
: Water Control (Winnowill - so soon after her exile on that island!)

Kings of the Broken Wheel - #6 :
: Magic Feeling (Extreme: Hearing a mental cry from beyond time!)
: Light Control (visual effects - Scroll magic)
: Link with the little Palace
: Mind Link (from afar) + Water Breathing (so soon after her exile on that island!)
: Time Jump (Palace power)

Kings of the Broken Wheel - #7 :
: Mental Call (Extreme)
: Mental Shield
: Lock Sending (facilitating birth - without a healer)
: Mental Shield (confirmed and developped)

Kings of the Broken Wheel - #8 :
: Rock Shaping (Determining a mountain's aging)
: Anti-Healing (driven by hatred)
: Healing (a human - leprosis-like terminal disease)
: Anti-healing (controlled)
: Genetic Change (removing the wolf blood from a wolfrider)
: Escaping Mind Link and Sending

Kings of the Broken Wheel - #9 :
: Water Surge
: Water Swirl
: Water Ram
: Mental Shield (Evolved into Mental Barriers and Mental Submission)
: Healing (at distance - power of love + Palace)
: Time Jump (back in time - Palace power)

Hidden Years #1:
: Premonition (not even watching the target!)

Hidden Years #2:
: Fire magic (Creating flames)

Hidden Years #4:
: Rock Shaping (Bridge - Palace power)
: Detecting humans around (Palace power)
: Winnowill in hypnotic trance and entrapped within the Palace's walls
: Fragments of the Palace (lost..)
: Healing (at distance - many at once - combined powers + Palace effect)

Hidden Years #5:
: Recognition (Mental Link effect)

Hidden Years #9½:
: Winnowill shaken out of her trance by Cutter's hating send
: Sending.. as the most adequate punishment ever!


Shards #16:
: Soul Entrapment
: Watching Over (visually confirmed)


The Searcher and the Sword:
: Sending (Complete Imagery, BY HUMAN)
: Preserver cocoon magic (to LEARN from the Palace)
: Deal elf spirit Calling (confirmed)


The Discovery:
: Magic Channelling (confirmed) + Learning in preserver cocoon (confirmed)
: Magic Shaping (Palace power)
: Going Out while cocooned and projecting a mental image from afar!
: Information: no hiding emotions while in this..
: Astral Flight (called by love)
: Water Surge
: HUGE spiraling Water Surge!
: Water Rope
: 'Us but not us..' - reminds of Cutter's remarks.. WHAT KIND OF ELF IS WINNOWILL, ACTUALLY!?..
: 'In THOUSANDS of years' !!

SEXY KAHVI!! ... this was Kahvi's thread, opened by Willowspring, on the original Scroll of Colors. Follow old discussions and see fanart from earlier times.

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Some of my sources...

Flashback #1 (Turning Tide) - first elves to be killed by humans (if we want to be technical and *if* it's Haze who pushes Coral's boat in flashback #3, then Coral was the very first human victim, and Haze and Farbright probably died right after), as well as deaths that took part only "last storm season" before Turning Tide. We later learn that Skimmer died before Moonmirror's parents ("the storms had come and gone only twice since Skimmer and Surge vanished").

Flashback #2 (Metamorphosis) - set after Coral's death, when Surge wanted to fight the humans back.

Flashback #3 (EQ2#1) - Coral's funeral, set about 500 years before Turning Tide.

FLashback #3b (EQ2#1) - (cont.) from Coral's funeral to the departure of Zephyr's band (when?).

Flashback #4 (EQ2#2) - Skimmer healing a random elf. Took place before her death in the storm season before WD#1.

Flashback #5 (EQ2#5) - Wavecatcher recounts that he met Yun "eight-and-four floodings ago". What's a flooding and how often does it occurr?

Flashback #6 (EQ2#21) - Zephyr's band takes off from Crest Point (some undetermined time after Coral's death).

Flashback #6b (EQ2#21) - (cont. of the above) Zephyr's band settles at Cavernsong after much time at sea. Later on, Wavelet is born.

Flashback #6c (EQ2#21) - (cont. of the above) Zephyr's band is slaughtered, when Wavelet's still a tiny infant (Marish found her a newborn babe in the woods). If we can figure out Wavelet's age then we'd know indicatively for how long Wavecatcher has been wandering before he met Yun. Trickier to say how much time it took for Zephyr's band to reach Cavernsong so we can figure out how much spent they spent journeying and how much in their new home.

Flashback #7 (EQ2#31) - WaveDancers have already settled at Crest Point, and there are three healers in the tribe, when young Reef goes off to explore.

Flashback #7b (EQ2#31) - (cont. of above) set short after Tyldak dropped Winnowill in the island at the end of SABM. Reef runs into her.

Flashback #7c (EQ2#31) - (cont. of above) Reef is "broken" by Winnowill.

Flashback #8 (EQ2#31) - First and only mention of Stormsong and how he died. No hint as to where his death should be placed in the timeline, tho.

Flashback #14 (missing chapters) - Darshek sees the ghostly Pirn and Shadowcrest. If he knows what both of his mother's lifemates looked like, he must be the oldest of the siblings (because Pirn died when he was just a baby. Longfin says that "Darshek barely knew his father Pirn", and Salt later comments "Pirn will be happy to see the grown son he last saw as a newborn pip". So Pirn, at the very least, was already long deceased at the time of Coral's funeral in flashback #1).