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Elfquest: A successful hunt

Wendy and Richard Pini at 7:45 am Mon, Nov 12, 2012

Pike, Krim and Sust

The tribe's storyteller, Pike loves intoxicating dreamberries, fiery Go-Back warrior Krim, and the good life. But the latter has not always come easily to them: their lifemate Skot's death at war left Pike and Krim to raise the threesome's boisterous son, Sust, without him.

Ember

Daughter of Cutter and Leetah, Ember leads a splinter branch of the Wolfrider clan. A spirited but inexperienced chief, she stands at the beginning of her tenure.

Scouter and Dewshine

Scouter's keen vision serves the Wolfriders well as huntsman, but his overprotectiveness of his family -- graceful huntress Dewshine, calm Tyleet and their enigmatic son Pool -- sees him challege his tribesmates often.

Tyleet

Tyleet's name means "Healer's Gift", and she inherits a gentle heart from her father, Redlance. From mother Nightfall, however, comes a taste for danger—which triggers lifemate Scouter's overprotective instincts like nothing else.

Yun and Khorbasi

Skywise's daughter shares his thist for adventure and a gift for profanity, but her lack of caution is her own. Her adopted human son, Khorbasi, helps her protect the tribe.

Mender

A healer and warrior, hot-headed Mender strives for inner equilibrium—and idolizes Cutter and Leetah, avatars of each side of his dual nature. But it is their daughter, Ember, whose love he seeks most.

Teir

A mysterious stalker on Abode's vast plains, Teir is a master of stealth and close-lipped about his past. Animals are drawn to him—and therefore most of the Wolfriders, too—including their young chief, Ember

Pool

Pool, the young son of Scouter and Tyleet, grew up with playmate Sust in Ember's branch of the Wolfrider tribe. Sensitive and engimatic, he could not be more different from his friend—and the depths of his powers are yet to be explored.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/margherita.tramontano Margherita Tramontano

    Is she worried about them, I wonder, or is she a little jealous because she would be a mother too?
    So the new baby will be a girl? I guess that the healers know!
    I also wonder if someday we’ll know what “K’chaiya” means… Is it merely a translation of “Firehair” in Elvish? The first time Teir said that, I almost believed that it was Ember’s soulname…

    • Sapfo

      On Elfquest.com her soulname is not known,

      • Erika Westberg

         … would he say her soulname out loud for the rest of the Tribe to hear?

        • http://www.tavie.com Tavie

           It’s not her soulname, it never was her soulname, I don’t know why people have ever thought it was her soulname…

          • Erika Westberg

             Yeah, I said that as a reply to Smif, but that post is edited so now it just looks weird. :-)

          • Sapfo

            Smsif has fast fingers and a slow mind ;-)

      • http://twitter.com/suzanimated Suzannah Rowntree

        No way. It would never be spoken out loud.

        • http://www.facebook.com/margherita.tramontano Margherita Tramontano

           I know it’s not her soulname- I just said I almost believed that when I read it the first time.^^

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1069003280 Eva Almgren-Friedman

      That nickname always reminded me of Piotr’s nickname for Kitty Pryde- “Katya”, was it not?

    • http://www.facebook.com/kristin.hunt.75 Kristin Hunt

       It could be, but we’ve also heard Teir call ember ‘Fireheart’  anD Firehair. Maybe its a twist on her soulname.. he’s close to it and can kina feel it (We know Suntop/Sunstream’s) soul name as a twin, its plausable that Ember is also a ‘K’ sounding soul name. So maybe Teir’s got am ‘impression’ of it.

      And so he just started calling her that. It seems to start in  The Wild Hunt , when they’re talking to Leighrin and Ember’s momentarily lost the Chieftanship to scouter, the wolf-mind send/vision, calls her K’Chaiya, and then teir starts calling her it.

      • http://www.facebook.com/margherita.tramontano Margherita Tramontano

         The first time was in Hidden Years, when she was dying and he rescued her from Winnowill’s monsters.

  • http://www.tavie.com Tavie

    Boy am I out of touch with this tribe. Who’s that round-ear?

    • http://boingboing.net/ Rob Beschizza

      http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics3.html and scroll down to “Recognition” — a loose thread.

      • http://www.tavie.com Tavie

         Back-reading now. I’ve been meaning to catch up with that one for years now… finally a really good reason to get to it!

        • http://www.tavie.com Tavie

           Ugh, now I know why everyone’s always asking when that story’s going to be finished. SO SHORT. :(

  • Sapfo

    Sust and Pool! New/old characters and I just want to get to know them :-)

  • Erika Westberg

     Huh, it looks weird now with your edit. Ah well. :-)

    • Sapfo

      Sorry :-)

  • http://www.facebook.com/ej.doe Ej Doe

    Sust has the rare silver hair? Hmm, I hadn’t expected that at all. Skot had dark brown, Krim has wheat blond, and and Pike has orange. I suspect Sust is Skot’s biological son because he couldn’t bond with a wolf, and thought once we knew his hair color it would be a big clue once and for all. Silver throws me off completely. Errrrrgggg.

    • Sapfo

      “Skywise, have you met Krim?”

      • http://www.facebook.com/ej.doe Ej Doe

        That was my initial thought too! I’m trying to remember when Krim got pregnant. Was it during the time the castle was pulled into the future and Skywise was away, or after he returned? Leetah clean his wolfblood, so if he was Skywise’s son, he couldn’t bond with a wolf now either.

        • http://www.facebook.com/margherita.tramontano Margherita Tramontano

           I think Skot’s the father. He was conceived under that table when Skot and Krim said to Strongbow “Join us?” XD If Krim got pregnant before the the shards war, some healer would have noticed that- like Mender noticed after.

          • http://boingboing.net/ Rob Beschizza

            Sust’s blood parentage is an answered question. Though it might be worth considering why the story’s vague about it before flexing the old googlefu!

          • http://www.facebook.com/ej.doe Ej Doe

            Huh? I wasn’t trying to offend anyone by asking the question. I was just wondering since I didn’t know. It’s been years since I read the story that Sust was in and I lost touch with every detail that happened in it.

          • http://boingboing.net/ Rob Beschizza

            I’m just mean that it’s all kind of spoilery, the old EQ discussion boards and such!

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1090748839 Ghyom De Re

      We don’t know who Pike’s mother was. If she was related to Clearbrook (like, maybe, her late daughter once mentioned), she could have been silver haired…

    • http://www.facebook.com/dc.mizejewski David Miz

      lol I think that was probably the point.  Krim and Cutter are the only two elves to have buff-colored hair, so that’s pretty rare too.  Perhaps the silver hair comes from Krim’s line?

  • http://www.facebook.com/JMrosenberry8 Johana Rosenberry

    I like to think that Skot left us a little present before he died…LOL

  • http://www.facebook.com/dc.mizejewski David Miz

    Three things I love about this page:
    1.  Ember’s hair, curlier than Cutter’s, shaggier than Leetah’s
    2.  Pool saying Ember not being there for Sunstream’s cub’s birth hurting his heart, because I use the same phrase
    3.  Sust has silver hair!

  • Alison Madigan

    I always figured Sust’s hair was buff colored, like his mother’s. Now looking at the group shot again, I see that Yun’s hair looks to be the same color as Krim’s, when I remember it being silver like Skywise’s. Makes me wonder if the colors got mixed…Yun’s with Sust’s (know what I mean?) May just be my faulty memory, tho!

    • http://www.facebook.com/dc.mizejewski David Miz

      Yun has pale blonde hair.  Krim has buff hair.  They’re pretty close in color actually, Yun’s just has a bit more yellow to it.

  • Anna Smith

    I love how this page shows Ember’s physical changes as she’s left behind her teen years and has truly entered adulthood.  She’s still distinctly herself, but her resemblance to Leetah is more defined now, while her hair is a perfect blending of both her parents, while retaining her own distinctive shade.