:) One of the great things about MWT's writing style is she doesn't waste too much time on physical description, which is the most obvious way to make your writing sound juvenile, but instead slips in hints and phrases so that you build up a picture gradually. You've picked up on some great bits Checkers!
I saw Gen in Thief as being about a head shorter than Pol, and the Magus, and perhaps around the same height as Sophos, who I think will eventually outgrow Gen. His skin colour is probably mediterranian, so a kind of light olive brown. Almost spanish maybe? That would fit in with the theme of dark hair and eyes and skin for Eddisians. I think Eugenides the god is described as having a reddish-brown colouring. What do you guys make of that?
Eddis is interesting, because I can never seem to picture her with dark skin, though all Eddisians must have it. What I find interesting (and this is slightly off topic) is how although we know that Eddisians have a darker skin colouring, we also know that Sounisians and Attolians are fair. Is this because they bred with the (presumably) fair skinned invaders, whilst the Eddisians remained in ther mountains, preserving their gods and language?
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Date: 1/22/06 11:06 am (UTC)I saw Gen in Thief as being about a head shorter than Pol, and the Magus, and perhaps around the same height as Sophos, who I think will eventually outgrow Gen. His skin colour is probably mediterranian, so a kind of light olive brown. Almost spanish maybe? That would fit in with the theme of dark hair and eyes and skin for Eddisians. I think Eugenides the god is described as having a reddish-brown colouring. What do you guys make of that?
Eddis is interesting, because I can never seem to picture her with dark skin, though all Eddisians must have it. What I find interesting (and this is slightly off topic) is how although we know that Eddisians have a darker skin colouring, we also know that Sounisians and Attolians are fair. Is this because they bred with the (presumably) fair skinned invaders, whilst the Eddisians remained in ther mountains, preserving their gods and language?