Re: Elfs - a guide to the aldryami

From: Shannon Appelcline <shannon.appelcline_at_1rZ6ff5nLciiMzBiGY4fwX5tnK9CL3SjGT8L4SQWQRHRPJ51My885pBdx>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:45:02 -0800

On Jan 3, 2008 3:06 AM, Keith Nellist <keithnellist_at_lCAkl4RniJjFt0ymsFd7gpG2OsB4kMpq-WBe7EaxFK5q9leNgD7Tkz8714FNqu4rZy9JDwf_9fzdK5jc6qtZ0DgQ.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

> This might be a nitpick or I might be wrong, but I did

> not think the Aramites started turning into Tusk Riders until the
> Inhuman Occupation, sometime after the collapse of the Third Council.
> Even if I'm wrong I think their rituals with elfs would be sappy
> rather than bloody.

Elder Secrets gives contradictory histories. The Tusk Rider writeup suggests that they originated in the Second Age as part of an EWF cross-breeding program, while the Cult of the Bloody Tusk suggests they appeared after the collapse of the EWF due to inter-breeding.

The first struck me as the more likely and the more interesting from the perspective of Second Age stories, but I was careful to note it as a transitional period: I think they're always called Aramites, not Tusk Riders, and there's pretty little detail of them.