Let the Speculation Begin

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

This is a little late, but...


Happy Birthday, Sounis!



sounis is 6 years old with 740 members!  Let us speculate in a celebratory way. 

What's going to happen to Gen, Irene, Sophos, Helen, et al?  Is Gen really ill?  Are there royal offspring in the making?  Will Attolia ever catch "Sandy"?  Will the Medes win the day?  Is someone actually going to offend the gods, eventually?  Where would Gen keep a war elephant, anyway?  No detail is too small for comment, crack-filled or in earnest. 

*huggles all of sounis*

Comments

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

What? No, just a simple "Rock falls and everyone dies?" XD Sorry, couldn't resist.

I think "sandy" will be revealed at some point, I can't imagine her being mention this many times isn't somehow important to the plot. I am also theorizing that Gen is playing up the sick angle to catch the Medes spies off guard, but that's just me.

I'm also curious as to what Cotis is currently up to since we didn't see him in CoK.

[willow-41z.livejournal.com]

... can I have a war elephant??

[booksrgood4u.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm...I think that Gen really needs to get back in to the thiefy aspect of his former life. I know that he's king and all, but I think his "Thief" persona had become so much a part of him that he kind of lost without it. Of course, there is the tiny problem with how Irene would react to his sneaking around, but I think it would be good for him.

On a totally different note:
Where would Gen keep a War Elephant? I don't know, but this is how it would happen:

Gen (very innocently): Irene,dear, would you mind coming down to the courtyard for a moment, there's something I'd like to show you.

Irene: I don't trust you when you talk like that.

Gen: Just for a moment...Pleeaassee?

Irene: Well, I see your not going to leave me alone until I do.

Gen: Not a Chance.

*Walks down to the courtyard*

Irene:....Did you...No. You didn't...You couldn't have.

Gen: Yes. Yes I did.

Irene: What are we going to do with it?

Gen: How should I know?

Irene: *covers eyes* Well, What do you want ME to do with it?

Gen: I could bring it back....*smirk*

Irene: Don't you dare!

Gen: So, so, so, you DO want to keep it, eh?

Irene: Don't you dare go back there, I mean.

Gen: Of Course. *wink*

Irene: It is STILL not to late for you to end up chained to a wall.

Gen: Soooooo...Can we keep it?

Irene: *trying very hard not to laugh* I suppose...*sigh* my palace is turning into a circus.

[booksrgood4u.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I really want to see a baby Gen or Irene soon.....

[1221bookworm.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday to Everyone!! :-)

There's definetly got to be children soon, otherwise the barons are going to start to get fractitious (and they have to stick together to beat the Medes)
AND I want to see them start to have a family, because it will be interesting to see how they start to raise their kids ... (I hope the books don't end when their just babies...) Gen will try to teach them all sorts of thiefy stuff, and Irene will try to put her foot down, and Gen and the kids will just get sneakier, and so on, and so on, and so on

And I don't think Gen is really sick, we would hear all about it if he really was (my this hurts, my that hurts). I think it is just his physicians trying to prove how well they take care of him. Though I like the idea that he's just acting that way to put the Medes off their guard ... perhaps make it look like he's kinda defeated because his health isn't what it used to be ...

Gen would take his war elephant to Eddis, and hide it there. Actually, he would ask his cousin who is Eddis to hide it, he would bring it to the border, and then let her figure out how to get it up the mountain.
Actually, he would want 2 elephants, so he could breed his own army of them. (Just make sure he doesn't learn about mating from the King of Siam in "The King and I" - Gen needs a male and female, not two males)

Thanks for the fun Checkers!

[1221bookworm.livejournal.com]

You forgot the last part,

Gen: Your palace is not a circus, My Queen. My Cousin, who is Eddis, has a circus for a court. I think you have a zoo. You have a wonderful display of snakes and weasels, and now you have an elephant to add to your collection.

Irene: And what part do you play in all of this?

Gen: In Eddis, I play a dancing bear, which is quite appropriate for a circus ...

Irene: And in my court, you play the monkey.

Gen: I prefer to think I am a chameleon. I give your barons exactly what they want to see, and yet I never loose who I really am.

Irene: And what is that?

Gen: The Theif of Eddis, humbly serving you, My Queen.

Irene: *turns around and walks away from Gen and all his craziness*


(This was really cute, booksrgood4u!)

[booksrgood4u.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, that was great!!

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

I don't know -- I mean, it sounds good in theory, but I heard Marc Aronson speak recently and he said do NOT depend on war elephants; they get scared over the littlest things and run away. You would hate to risk your entire battle on a stupid elephant. If, however, what you are looking for is the whole intimidation factor, war elephants are probably the way to go.

Also, you have to buy them elephant armor like this (http://asianmil.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8354be54369e20134868dfe74970c-800wi) which, I imagine, is pretty expensive.

Also again, the same week I heard a mention of war elephants, I watched the old BBC Strong Poison, and Lord Peter actually said, "where there's life, there's hope." I sort of squealed.

[booksrgood4u.livejournal.com]

I did a biography of Hannibal when I was like, ten (which makes me an expert you see ;)) and he crossed the Alps on elephants and horses. Only 1 elephant died, and if I remember correctly, more horses than elephants were lost on the way accross... So they can't be that bad!!

[brandy-painter.livejournal.com]

Yay for this truly marvelous group of people who share my crazy obsession!

My brain is well and truly mush from the festivities of the past few days and I am unable to form coherent thoughts regarding speculation. I do really hope to see little Attolian royals before everything is said and done.

[magicsandwiches.livejournal.com]

Just your post made me laugh laugh laugh.

Sandy.... Hahahahahaha.

[agh-4.livejournal.com]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I'm so glad you guys exist.

I also think that we'll eventually get to meet Sandy, although I seriously hope that Attolia doesn't catch her and do her worst. Maybe she'll experience a Costis-like enlightenment and be sent off with him to spy on the Medes (or whatever)...? The next book could very well be a thrilling tale of espionage and elephants, I'm sure. :S

I am interested to see how the whole moving-all-the-Eddisians thing works. It would be cool to get an Eddisian character's perspective on that. Also, I hope Nomenus and Sophos's slave friends come back.

YAY SOUNIS!

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

Also yesterday was the five year aniversary of the unveiling of the Costis letters conspiracy!

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

Haha that reminds me of Ivan Vorpatril calling Miles' armsmen zookeepers in Memory!

Not Eddisian nannies but zookeepers! haahha

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

MAYBE Costis has been sent to get the war elephants.

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

That honestly looks like a lego-elephant.

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

Also: "Where there's life, there's hope" is either Cicero, statesman and orator of ancient Rome, or Theocritus, 3rd century Greek poet. There are a few variations. This information came from Wikiquote.

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

...Nahusersquish

[hazelwillow.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Happy birthday Sounis!

Speculation? But of course!

I have to counter the popular desire on this thread, and say I want Gen and Irene to have kids, but only in the future, after the books are finished. Not now. If they suddenly became parents I think I would find it harder to relate to them.

Hypocritically, I kindof DO want Helen and Sophos to become parents. Because Sophos as a dad would just be the CUTEST THING EVER.

I believe Gen really is sick, because holding three countries together has got to wear down on you. But I don't think (i.e. I HOPE VERY STRONGLY) that his sickness isn't fatal, because I don't think he'd ever die of anything except a fall. And is sickness a fall? No, sickness is not a fall. I tell myself this often.

[hazelwillow.livejournal.com]

As for Costis....

Gen: Costis, I need you to steal me an elephant.

Costis: Oh my noble lord, you are insane.

Gen: I may be, but you still have an elephant to steal. Actually, let's make it a bunch of elephants. Yes. So hop to it, eh? I have a lot of things to do. Toodloo!

Costis: (despairingly) Why does he *always* ask the impossible?

Gen: (from around the corner) Don't mutter about impossibilities! I've already stolen a magus, a queen, and three countries!

Costis: Countries...don't make noise!

Gen: (smugly) Of course they do! They contain millions of people.

Costis: It's not a fair comparison at all! Countries are conceptual entities! That's not the same as LARGE MAMMALS, capable of BREAKING THINGS SIMPLY BY STEPPING ON THEM.

Gen: That's why I need you to steal one! Also because I think they're dashing. Don't you think elephants are dashing?

Costis: (into his hands) How am I supposed to do this?

Gen: Have you tried prayer?

[hazelwillow.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha excellent!

[booksrgood4u.livejournal.com]

This was hilarious!
I love the part where Costis says "Countries don't make any noise!"

[elvenjaneite.livejournal.com]

I actually wonder, mostly seriously, if it might be the Medes who offend the gods. Not an aspect I had considered before, but very interesting.

*pictures Costis on an elephant*

[1221bookworm.livejournal.com]

Really fun!!
I like Gen's comment that countries contain millions of people, so of course they make noise!

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

Now, we know why Gen needs elephants!

XD