#ElfQuest

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Elfquest - art by Wendy Pini (1977)

[mrs-gauche]

@hedonistrevolutionary Oh WOW, thank you for this comment! I didn't know anything about this, and while I couldn't find anything on whether or not this comic series from the 70s actually had any influence on Dragon Age, it certainly led me down a very deep, interesting rabbit hole. 😂

Like, literally me while reading the synopsis of some of this comic's story elements:

And I can't help but imagine an alternative universe now, in which Dragon Age came out in the 70s and the Evanuris look like this...

....Arlathan looks like this...

...this is Fen'Harel...

Oh, and we might have found the original Solavellan lmaoo

[solpoogaa]

Mommy

[haveyouplayedthisttrpg]

Have you played ELFQUEST : The Official Roleplaying Game ?

By Steve Perrin, Sandy Petersen, Yurek Chodak

Set in the world of the Elfquest comics, players can either play elves from the comic itself or create their own Wolfrider elves as they struggle to survive. Focuses heavily on storytelling and was a bit of a disappointment to the RPers of the time, who were primarily wargamers.

[chulip-blossoms]

I am thoroughly tickled by Cutter's wolf mate placing his paw on Cutter's arm every time he stops giving him pets 😆🐶 So cute

[victusinveritas]

[stratosmacca]

This started out as a warmup sketch I was going to ink and color but then I was like 'you know, I just kind of like the sketch.' Sometimes simple is better :)

[balu8]

"She's just the fussy type, I suppose..."

Elfquest #4: Wolf Song

by Wendy and Richard Pini

Warp

[angel-of-the-moons]

Look what I found tucked WAAAAAAAY in the back of a bookstore todaaaaaaay :D

I've only ever read the comics--not the novelizations of the comics!

[moonjunio]

Let’s start with the first romantic coupling we see in ElfQuest: Nightfall and Redlance. Also in frame are two more members of the ❤️ ⭕️, Cutter and Skywise, but they have a lot of story ahead before their relationship collectively becomes deep enough to coalesce into a group bond. For now, this is the OG love on the page.

It’s wild to see letters in the back of the original ElfQuest issues wondering if the female elves were also warriors and hunters. Oh honey, you don’t even know what you’re reading yet! But it makes sense - the Wolfriders are in crisis when we first meet them, so we don’t see them in their normal roles right away.

Nightfall’s only concern right now is that her lifemate Redlance could still die from the effects of being tortured by humans.

The Wolfriders are forced to flee the only home they’ve ever known as the humans burn the forest down. Tricked into a desert trek, Redlance has no time to recover, and Nightfall won’t leave his side - even if the others must go on in the hopes of finding water.

The second printing has extra scenes, including this beautiful page (above) of backstory, showing Nightfall’s precious memories of their love.

The fifth member of ♥️ ⭕️ - Leetah the healer - enters the picture (more on this in the next post).

One of the key aspects of being a Wolfrider is having a soul name. We later learn that other groups of elves never developed this psychic protection, hand in hand with their advanced telepathy, in order to survive continual conflict with humans (and more).

Soul names are normally kept secret, even between lifemates, unless the mystical phenomenon known is as Recognition suddenly strikes and reveals each other’s soul completely. To voluntarily give a soul name to another is an act that goes beyond mere love.

As readers in 70s and 80s, it was refreshing to see what could be viewed as an inversion of our gender stereotypes - Nightfall the skilled huntress and fierce warrior, Redlance the gentle shaper of green growing things. Yet this never meant that Nightfall wasn’t nurturing and warm, or that Redlance wouldn’t fight with every ounce of his being to preserve life by any means.

Below, he relives the nightmare of losing their forest home to fire - but this time he can do something about it.

Whatever support is needed, that’s what the other person offers.

Even if it’s just being nearby when your beloved is trying something hard.

Get yourself a Nightfall. And/or a Redlance. Who knows how you might grow with loving support?

[pulpsandcomics2]

Bearclaw and Joyleaf by Wendy Pini

[turnipatthelibrary]

While I haven’t had a sewing machine it has accelerated my progress on my embroidery project.

Nightrunner is more than halfway finished now. I’m so close to completing another project!

[iibislintu]

nobody: "the 1990s weren't a great time for poly representation"

the 1990s:

(I know that Elfquest is older but that is when I first read it)

[roncheg]

Look, what I have😍 my own copy!!! My inner child is happy through the roof 😊 the happiest!!!

[mightydyke]

The fact that he said this at the end of the Original Quest, before Kings of the Broken Wheel... I'm ripping my hair out I'm going crazy

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Wendy Pini: Leetah