> Either/or? Both, surely!
By Gar, I think she's got it! (sorry)
> Training your new puppy can be very interesting when
> it's a garhound. In fact, giving up and handing it
> over to the Garhound "priest" (wrong word, but you
> know what I mean) is the usual answer. Assuming you
> can catch it for long enough to hand it over...
Wonderful, I like it.
> But, fun though this is, I'm afraid it's completely
> lost track of the word "gar". Can anyone put it back
> in?
It could be simply descriptive, a long, lean dog (with or without fish head). Or the settlement could have been known as Gar and had a famous sprit hound, or there is that elusive connection to the Ladies of the same title. Which may not be as unreasonable as it might seem, if the family is from Karse. Temple guard dogs?
> Ah, maybe when Declan arrived, he and his family did a
> Quest to prove that their Garhound is in fact the same
> as Brother Dog? I don't know if he succeeded, or if
> the result was unexpected and interesting, or what...
When the strange folk appeared, some Praxian tribe I'd never seen before, the Lord of the town called forth the guardian of his family. A mist rose up from the river and mingled with that of the well and we could all hear a deep growl. Slowly, the massive shape of the Garhound coalesced and it turned towards the strangers on their otherwordly beasts. Everyone expected a ferocious battle, but to our surprise a old man of the strangers stepped forward, rattled something and did a strange little dance and what does the Garhound do? It wags it's misty tail, is what it does! Then it lay down, head between front paws and whines.
The Lord was a little surprised to say the lesst.
-- Bo Ros�n <brosen_at_...>
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