Do the powers really need to be a counter, or opposing pair? What if deep down inside they were all basicly the same, but believed in different things and it was just their driving issues that caused the rift between the 2 courts?
Well, speaking only for myself, here... The story as developing needs two magical powers in opposition, each with its own agenda regarding and designs upon a third geography. Philosophically, I'm comfortable with a Dark Court and a Light, because, well, I've been hanging out with Liadens too long *g* Also, the interplay of Light and Dark creates Shadow... and I feel a Roger Zelazny moment coming on...
I don't remember when I first came across the term "The Queen of Air and Darkness." I'm sure I came across it long before reading e.g. Poul Anderson's award-winning many-times-anthologized SF story (novella?)of that name, for example.
http://www.clarsa.com/lyrics.html
has a poem from the story, most of the way down the page, excerpt,
"To Arvid came she striding from where she watched the dance, The Queen of Air and Darkness, with starlight in her glance. With starlight, love and terror in her immortal eye, The Queen of Air and Darkness cried softly under sky: "Lie down you, ranger Arvid, and join the Outling folk. You need no more be human, which is a heavy yoke."
I'm trying to remember if e.g. Thomas the Rhymer or Tam Lin mentions the Queen of Faerie as being the Queen of Air and Darkness, what I can remember of the lyrics of them, no, but....
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Date: 2005-05-27 09:02 am (UTC)- Jeff
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Date: 2005-05-27 10:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-05 09:01 pm (UTC)http://www.clarsa.com/lyrics.html
has a poem from the story, most of the way down the page, excerpt,
"To Arvid came she striding from where she watched the dance,
The Queen of Air and Darkness, with starlight in her glance.
With starlight, love and terror in her immortal eye,
The Queen of Air and Darkness cried softly under sky:
"Lie down you, ranger Arvid, and join the Outling folk.
You need no more be human, which is a heavy yoke."
I'm trying to remember if e.g. Thomas the Rhymer or Tam Lin mentions the Queen of Faerie as being the Queen of Air and Darkness, what I can remember of the lyrics of them, no, but....