I made the effort to search through MK's posts to find all the ones specifically about Hammerfell, Redguards, or Yokuda. There weren't all that many, especially since the posts are only stored back to earlier this year. Some of them give a good idea of how he feels about the Redguards.
In backwards chronology:
September 12th 2006
Lorus:
And panther-love? Like the Mayans and Aztecs? Wait, they were in to jaguars...I get my big cats mixed up. Still, though, tiger (rock)-love also seems common on the Mundus. Does the panther-love have any relation?
No, I was actually referring to The Black Panthers and their radicalism.
As some people know I'm not really a fan of the United Colors of Beneton approach to Tamrielicreation, which smacks of white guilt and offensery rather than some holistic form of beautiful inclusion. Thus, it's my fault that the Asian analogues got eaten. Oops. Looks like others are bringing 'em back, though. But I promise my choice had nothing to do with Yellow Peril, it had to do with co-opting "coolness of color" without thinking about it intelligently and compassionately.
(Hunkers down for the flame.)
That said, when I started writing Redguard I really thought about how unique the black people of Tamriel were: they came in and kicked ass and slaughtered the indigenes while doing so. They invaded. It was the first time I had encountered the idea of "black imperialism"...and it struck me big time, as something 1) new, 2) potentially dangerous if taken as commentary, and 3) potentially rad if taken as commentary.
Who knows. AVault did say it had a story worthy of being on stage, and Michael Mack (Cyrus) once thanked me for giving him words that "Black folks don't get to say" (referring to Cyrus' speech and the reversal of Son to the Father)... which broke my heart and made me puff my chest all at the same time.
Which is a long way of saying: panther-love.
-MK
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[url=http://img171.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bff01uz0.jpg]I had help. Ra Gada, baby.[/url]- Okay, not really related.
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But, yeah, Yoku is a favorite playground of mine, too. Cheeky, stern, riddling, and panther-love. Will spend more time there in the future.
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Me:
The question is, does this mean that Morwha and Sep got it on too?
Sep sho' was hungry, and Morwha was the Teat Goddess. Mother's milk, yo.
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August 23rd 2006
Gez:
the Redguards are the only one who got something right: Anu and Padomay are just two names for the same thing, Satakal.
Hidden for years.
So who do you think Tall Papa is?
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June 24th 2006
Good digging. Orichalc Tower was indeed in Yokuda. Whether or not it contributed to the sinking of the land isn't for me to say, but the Yoku and the Left-Handed Elves certainly did fight a lot, so you can be sure the Tower had a part to play in their wargames.
Orichalc the name comes from Plato's description of Atlantis, the Most Famousest of Sinking Continents. It was therefore too fun not to add some orichalc into Yokuda's background.
Plus it's just a neat-looking, neat-sounding word.
I'd do the same with Tedders, but he doesn't post in lore that much anymore anyway and I'd have to search through like 10,000 posts in the RP.
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nabO_UXb6MM]This is not my life[/url]
That said, when I started writing Redguard I really thought about how unique the black people of Tamriel were: they came in and kicked ass and slaughtered the indigenes while doing so. They invaded. It was the first time I had encountered the idea of "black imperialism"...and it struck me big time, as something 1) new, 2) potentially dangerous if taken as commentary, and 3) potentially rad if taken as commentary.
Who knows. AVault did say it had a story worthy of being on stage, and Michael Mack (Cyrus) once thanked me for giving him words that "Black folks don't get to say" (referring to Cyrus' speech and the reversal of Son to the Father)... which broke my heart and made me puff my chest all at the same time.
Which is a long way of saying: panther-love.
-MK
Aaah... Someone knows a lot more about writing, than he knows about history.
Not to boast or anything, but here's an MK post I liked:
MK wrote:
Gez wrote:
In this last incarnation, the HoonDing was said to have been either a sword or a crown, or both.
If I tell you the story of two characters who shared the soul of a god, a god that always championed mankind, and in that story one of the two characters uses the soul of the other, trapped in a gem, to power a weapon and win a war with that weapon, what will you say? Is that the story of Tiber Septim and Zurin Arctus, or the story of Cyrus and A'Tor?
Just idle musing for now, but you can guess where I'm going. I'll say that, unwittingly maybe, Cyrus is responsible for the resurrection of A'Tor having somewhat failed. His divine side, the spirit of Make-Way, caused it to fail so as to sacrifice A'Tor on the Mantellan Crux of resurrection.
