From the yellow elf pov this seems unproblematic, at least: they mate with manifestations of Aldrya, other types, less blessed, have had to 'grow out of whole dirt' (as it were) lesser creatures to fill the same role in a lesser fashion. That brown elves are explicitly broken (or should I say, frost-damaged?) yellows underlines the point, so I reckon they'd be likely to account for the greens in similarly abusive terms...
> << I see that a number of things have been un-Gregged; for instance,
> Shanasse. Speaking of whom, is there any connection between Shanasse Aldrya's
> lover and Shanassae the sky critters also known as Certami? Or is that just
> linguistic happenstance? >>
>
> I can't say for certain, as this additional name came from either Greg
> or Stephen Martin, not from me. But it does rather sound like there's
> intended to be a connection though, doesn't it? Shanassae might be the elven
> name for certami, for instance - its plausible they'd know about them, IMO.
That's the best account I've heard... (I'm confused by what you mean about an additional name, though, both of these date back to way back when, don't they?)
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