I've still got a lot of planning for this since I just thought of this last night, but I wanted to write a series of encounters where Quad visits various 'totem' animals and learns from them. This will be similar to
The Trial of the Battle Born (and will include that story as well).
I'm going to work on a synopsis and a list of animals he will encounter in the stories. The idea is that since he has lost his way from the Twin Gods' guidance (Ignoring his responsibility to defeat Iugulare by having a truce with her), they send him on a series of journeys to visit various animals that represent different totems. I'll incorporate actual totem symbolism into the stories as well, with help from a symbolism resource I like called
whats your sign.
So feel free to track this if you'd like, it should end up being something interesting soon.
Animal stories to include (Tentative list) -
Bear
Wolf
Hummingbird
Goose
Coyote
Kangaroo
Horse
Tiger
Alligator/Crocodile
Tadpoles
Turtle
Eagle/Hawk/Falcon
Snake
Pronghorn Antelope
interesting tracking
tracking
Let me know if there are any
I also will have symbols associated with each animal, but I may just create a bunch of symbols and then have a vote on what should be paired with which animal. This will be sometime soon hopefully, I'll make a post about it later.
I was working in the
I see no cats on the list, lynx, snow leopards, panters, ocelots (these are my favorite ones), and also the most "classic" ones like tigers, lions, leopards, jaguars, pumas, etc. Cats are really powerful animals.
there are also no marine animals (besides turtles): whales (orcas, belugas), rays, manatees,
dolphins, maybe a seahorse?.
Armadillos and hedgehogs are special animals too as they have an armor and (I don't know how to say it in english) they make ball of themselves (hehe)
then there are unique and characteristic animals like lemurs, sloths, anteaters, stoats, chameleons, lemmings (who actually throw themselves massively to the sea),
there's a canine named Aguará guazú that's really special too, it looks like a fox but behaves like a deer. Fenec foxes are super cute, and common dogs has much wisdom.
centipedes, fireflyes and scorpions are interesting bugs
I tried to think in animals with strong features that were really special and strongly iconic. even if you don't included them in your story, it's always a beautiful thing to talk about animals and introduce someone to some animal that maybe they didn't knew about
(:
ps: Kío's complete name is Kiorana Caan Nagual (Kiorana the cosmic nagual in a mixture of native south american tongues). A nahual or nagual it's a being that has the hability to transform himself into an animal in order to be able to go into places without being seen.
It's also a guide spirit that every person has inside and that can lead you to self-knowledge and eventual spiritual evolution, and manifests itself through a animal that have specific characterictics that we have to learn in this life.
so, I certainly and personaly feel very interested in seeing how this goes on <3
Let's see... a komodo dragon
Thanks for all the
I had a few ideas on the way too -
Each animal is part of an element, and there are members of each element represented. The BattleBorn, for example, would probably be a water element since he lives in the arctic and his name was based on snow
One of the first animals I want to write about is an old rabbit
A cricket or an ant?
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Butterflies?
Thanks for all the
Hey want to help me out on one of the upcoming stories? I need a few names...
Good Wolf Tribe name
Rival Wolf Tribe name
Elder Wolf Leader name
Elder's Son's name
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated, and I'll either use a matching set of suggestions or I may mix from what you guys come up with
If I'm feeling up to it, I may write the wolf story today, or possibly the rabbit story. I've had both rattling around in my brain lately XD
May try to write one of the
So the stories I plan to write soon are -
Rabbit
Wolf
Snake
Deer (may pick something different for this one)
Goose
Hi Quad, Great to stil see