teambadchoices:The Orange Book (Lone)“Oh, Imad, my truest friend, how time has thinned your ragged m
teambadchoices:The Orange Book (Lone)“Oh, Imad, my truest friend, how time has thinned your ragged mane and pinched your features; still you seem though, much, much changed—somehow unchanged.” –Terran to ImadLanguage: Ancient Orcish, trans. Pasha OxanaLength: 959 pages.The Orange Book follows the lives of Terran, the only son of Hana Azarola, and Imad, the only son of Helmut Bloodorange. Their story picks up as they become friends, and Imad convinces Terran to set out on the road with him, and they wander Westerland as acrobatic performers. By the will of Kord they end up on a quest in search of a famed jewel, said to possess a drop of nectar from Kord’s cup. At the same time Terran is being pursued by the Azarolas to marry, since he is the next in line for control of the Azarola tribe. Hana dies in a heroic last battle with a dragon, which spurs a more dogged pursuit of Terran and Imad. Terran, on hearing of his mother’s death, gives himself up in order to attend her funeral. He is detained by the Azarola tribe and set to marry an Orcish heiress from another tribe, to make the Azarola tribe stronger than ever. Imad, aware that their quest for the jewel will come to an end after the wedding, arrives the night before the wedding and takes Terran away once again. After a long battle and many harrowing adventures (the night lasts longer than usual due to a prayer made by Terran), Terran and Imad capture the jewel and spend the dawn in celebration and companionship—Imad gives Terran the jewel as a final gift before returning Terran to the Azarolas. Just before the wedding ceremony is concluded, the tribe that owned the jewel makes a brutal attack on the wedding party (known in Orcish history as the Orange Massacre). Terran’s wife is killed and Terran sacrifices himself to save Imad. Imad uses the jewel to save the life of Terran’s child (There is a great amount of dispute about the parentage of this child. Some versions say it is the child of Terran and his wife-to-be, other versions say it is Imad’s—extrapolating Orcish symbolism during the period of interest suggests that the child was born from the power of the jewel fueled by the bond forged between Terran and Imad, although this is a highly controversial claim in some Orcish circles). Imad raises the child in the wilderness: Terra (so named by Imad) later becomes the matriarch for the new Azarola Dynasty.***Image http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/display_image.php?id=42258; Quote http://www.thehypertexts.com/Arthurian%20Poems.htm -- source link
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