3424 From Death Life
on January 8, 2021
Chapter: Conclusions
Characters: Prince Glitterbranch, Princess Dewcup
Location: Ruun Capitol City of the Rannite Empire
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Happy nature-loving Drow? However did she pull THAT one off?
Remember when she visited Arachne Under the Mountain? She’s just *that* good 😀
This bunch have been cut off from baseline Drow culture for centuries…and until recently were stark, raving mad as well, thanks to isolation and Ranna’s influence. Now that their minds are a little bit clearer, I guess they’ve fixated on the nearest person who radiates confidence that her course is the right one…and, gods help them all, that person is Dewcup.
I hope she’s better at leadership than at naming things.
(Though Dewcup’s naming acumen kind of reminds me of — of all people — Leonard of Quirm. "Because it functions while SUBmerged in a MARINE environment, I call it the ‘Going-Under-The-Water-Safely Device’.")
Give Deecup a little credit.
She brought life back to a city tainted by Ranna.
She healed the minds of the Drow.
Not Ch-thier. Not an immortal archpriestess. Her. Silly, kind Dewcup.
That’s an achievement worth applauding. To those Drow, she’s their saviour in more ways than one.
I agree, Aebliss, this is one for the books.
Dewcup has amazed me, and woudln’t it be intresting if this turns out to be the great city of the future, where people gather to wonder about what really happedned in the distant past…
Now now, many names are pretty much like that. It just is jarring to see it in plain English instead of bastardised and abbreviated old tongue. It probably has some lilting, poetic sound in Elvish.
Maybe something like "H’aë Nonn E’nónen Ie"!
Take Munich, for example: the name comes from "forum apud Munichen" which means "Marketplace next to the monks".
Another example: Our planet. Talk about unimaginative. We could’ve lived on Multicolored Gem, but no, we call the place “Earth”.
Calling the sun “Sun” (or “Sol”) is also brilliant. (pun intended)
I think she is still ahead of Leonard of Quirm or our reality.
Can you guess how many "Neustadt" (new town) there are in Germany. New York (or any other New whatever) or a bit older: Naples (Neápolis).
Ah-Ha! All explained back in #2886 (The Undergarden) !
We call that Night Elves…or Eilistraee from Forgotten Realms since they do hang out in forests albeit due to being chased by Underdark denizens yet scared by surface settlement.
Well, that just rolls smoothly & easily off the tongue, dunnit?
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Maybe it’s all one word in Elvish? ^_^
Anyway, the citizens seem to like it.
It could just be abbreviated I guess..
PPCOJ… "PeeCog", maybe..
"Call me Ishmael."
PPCOJ? I’d go with “Peppy-codge.”
Name could use some workshopping, but the spirit is appreciated.
Can we go with "Joy" for the shortened version?
I know of a "Plant City." From here on, I will think of it as Joy.
I am pushing for the original Elvish to be "H’aë Nonn E’nónen Ie", which you need to read out loud.
My Elvish is kinda rusty, how would that sound phonetically?
"Hey nonny-nonnen-ly?"
A little Shakespearean, I know. My other option was Welsh sounding:
Llagh di Dag Digt Dauwgh
Gonna be interesting to see how the rest of the world (specially Eddy) tries to come up with a reason why she *can’t* be the ruler of this city 😛
There’s "can’t", and there’s "shouldn’t". You gotta admit, it’s terrifying to imagine Dewcup being in charge of a book club, let alone a city.
Then again, they say an expert is one who has already made every possible mistake in their field. And by that standard, Dewcup’s expertise is unmatched.
(And credit where it’s due: the place DOES look gorgeous now.)
Well, let’s give her a shot. The Drow here are still at naked savage-level of cultural development. As long as Dewcup has food and housing set up, and provides medicine for the sick, and the tribe’s warriors handle defense, she should be set for the next century – barring outside interference.
She could benefit from a couple of sensible chancellors, of course, but for now her people’s needs are still pretty basic.
I mean she’s already royalty, I don’t know if her or dewcup are next in line for the wood elf crown but the odds of her ruling something eventually were already pretty high.
Whoops, wrote dewcup instead of glitterbranch there.
I just read through some of the earlier strips recently, so I’m fairly sure, that Glitterbranch is next in line. She also mentioned to Arachne, that she is going to marry an elven prince and rule with him together whatever place he is coming from. So yeah, sooner or later she would have been the queen of something. Funny thing is, looking at the elven morale and mentality, I think most elves would have had the same reaction as the drow here. 🙂
I don’t know what I expected her to rename the city to, but that was not it. I’m going to be giggling for days.
Ahh, this made me smile. I needed that. ^_^
Dewcup just needs a sensible chancellor or two for day-to-day affairs, and then this city could become one of the best places to live in the YAFGCiverse.
Whoops. This was meant to be a new post, not a reply…
Such a way with words!
It wouldn’t sound too bad in French: Villejoie-Belleplante.
I think that’s an actual Metro station…
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Belleplante de Jolieville.
Jolie jolie ville des plantes?
Which in YAFGC bastardized ‘English’ would sound like: "Jullyjullyveeds’plont."
Which would much later be reduced to “Jullyveeds”…. I like that.
The royal address: 51 Dewcup Road, Jullyveeds, Northrealm.
From the look on Glitterbranch’s face, I wonder if he’s been smoking some "veed."
Im sure it will be either calked Plant city ot The city of Joy by outsiders
Only after the news about the transformation spread wide enough. Until then outsiders will still call it Ruun…
Question is, how long will that take. Glitterbranch might spreads the word among the elves, but there is a chance that other folks won’t learn it for a while. Unless there will be some greedy adventurers, who hope the place to be full with easily obtainable treasures, now that Ranna is gone…
I’ve seen worse leaders
"Citizens of Happy Plant City of Joy! We love you; you’re very special."
Naw, you’re right. Dewcup is way better than that.
"…Ranna’s nasty old city of war and death and yuckiness!"
<SNORT>
She became the ruler of Drow nudists, she might as well get naked.
To be fair, it probably sounds a lot less silly in Elvish.
That would be:
Bein redhi- othrond -o gel
in the Elvish language of Sindarin. Depends which Elvish language you choose of course.
And that would be pronounced like: "bain-RETHIE-othrond-oh-gell?"
Sounds good to me. As long as it sounds musical. 😀
Oh wait, there’s more:
In Quenya, it’s: Prettime uile citime -o alasse
In Tengwar, it’s: i.ibb.co/Wffcm5K/PPCOJ.png
I had:
Olva-Minassë Vanya Alassëo
working off: https://www.ambar-eldaron.com/telechargements/quenya-engl-A4.pdf
and:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quenya_grammar#Noun_declension
In other news, I am officially the saddest bastard alive.
That actually counds pretty good!
Ooutsiders will probably shorten it to O-Alasseyo somday…. I hope that’s not going to sound too silly.
My thought on seeing this was "I’ll be damned, she actually pulled it off!"
A small coma after "Plant" would make all the difference!
*I* call it Titty City!
You’re welcome.
Such a beautiful name.
*single tear rolls down cheek*
I wonder how long it will take for the elves of this city to count as their own type of elf different from drow or wood elves.
WoodDrow 😀
Pretty Plant Elves of Joy!
Come to think of it, these elves seem to be living happily under the open sky with no aversion to sunlight. (Unless the tree canopy overhead means the sunlight never actually touches them.) So maybe "Drow" really is the wrong word for them now, physiologically as well as culturally.
Thought they were in the domed part of the city, but looking at panel one again, I must have had that mixed up with Umbral
I think you’re right that they WERE in the sunken city. But judging from Panel 1, Ruun — ah, pardon me, the Pretty Plant City of Joy — appears to have resurfaced when its time of banishment ended.
(Makes a bit more sense when you take into account that the curtain of Abynn seems to have been an interplanar portal, not just a physical piece of geography. People don’t reliably survive a purely physical fall like that one!)
No, I knew they were in PPCoJ, just thought there was a dome in panel one, which was in Umbral (or maybe getting even *that* confused with the Temple Ch’Thier)
I was figuring the canopy kept the sunlight from being harsh enough on them, or they’re doing this at night, but it looks fairly bright out.
Now I think we might get some spike in Half-Drows too.
I mean they can technically have half-Drow with elven races too.
I’m surprised no one came up with this yet:
"If you’re going to City of Joy
Be sure to wear
Some flowers in your hair"
"I left my heart in Pretty Plant City of Joy…"
"Take me down to the Plant-Joy City
Where the grass is green and the trees are Pretty"
Reading the name of that new city, I keep thinking of the character Bubbles (the former water cooler) from "Skin Horse": "Service is my only Joy" (or something similar) She was like Groot, except she had a larger vocabulary 😛
Here’s a link to the show Rich mentioned
https://youtu.be/wsYzP1jMD3w
good Drow, never thought I’d see the day. now that Lolth is licking her wounds in the afterlife maybe this is a chance for Eilistraee to seize some power. she’s the chaotic good drow goddess of beauty, dance, and swords.
Don’t forget naked tree-hugging and flower-arranging
Eilistraee is a pretty setting-specific entity. I would lay odds she doesn’t exist at all in this world.
A tiny point of trivial criticism = asymmetry of gate design in panel one! – I would have thought elves, even drow, would prefer aesthetic symmetry?
Counter point: who said the City Formerly Known As Ruun was built by elves?
Didn’t spot the snakes before, good eye
I don’t know why you’ve come to the conclusion that Elves prefer symmetry, considering they love the ebb and flow of wild nature generally speaking (though I’ll grant you, most of Earth’s biological lifeforms are based on a symmetrical pattern -Fiddler Crabs and apparently Stegosauridae notwithstanding), BUT, even granting you that supposition, I’ve got an answer for you.
Certainly an answer much more helpful than Guesticus’ usual impulsive regurgitation of nonsense.
1: The city of Ruun was not, in fact, as Guesticus noted, designed by (completely) by Elves. In fact, the Drow are not even the original indigenous population. It was designed by Ranna and her followers, who were probably mostly Human, maybe some Elves, Orcs, Hobgoblins, and of course, Gorgons and serpent-corrupted creatures. All of course also tainted by her corrupt nature.
2: The city was very old to begin with, but it also got sunk deep into the ocean (and ported to an alternate plane) where it was mangled, twisted, and rotted over centuries. (This is when the Drow moved in to guard Ranna’s body. It was already a twisted wreck even before they got settled.)
3: It was risen violently from it’s deep dwelling when Ranna was resurrected. So it’s not so much that it was designed asymmetrically, it’s showing the wreckage of time and violent upheaval. The gate actually was straight and symmetrical once. With Ranna’s serpent charge on each great door.
Believe they were referring to the two snakes facing the same direction, instead of the more-typical depiction of facing each other
But, what would I know, I didn’t draw it