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- From: dkf11@cl.cam.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows)
- Subject: Re: Elenium--Bhelliom
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.134708.15145@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- References: <1993Jan24.194349.9704@athena.mit.edu> <1993Jan25.011809.1@max.u.washington.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:47:08 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.011809.1@max.u.washington.edu> zen@max.u.washington.edu writes:
- >In article <1993Jan24.194349.9704@athena.mit.edu>, seung@athena.mit.edu (Seungtaek L Choi) writes:
- >> the process in which the Bhelliom is created is described. It says that the
- >> Troll, (forgot his name) carves the Bhelliom and then carves the control rings
- >> out of the same piece of sapphire as the Bhelliom. How come then is the Bhelliom
- >> blue, while the control rings are red? I would really appreciate the answer to
- >> this question.
- >
- > In the prologue of The Ruby Knight there is a part concerning the
- >the original Sparhawk and Antor the king. It goes on to describe how
- >after a battle a hooded Styric women tended them and gave them a pair
- >of rings which came to symbolize their friendship. "Tradition has it
- >that the oval stones set in the rings were as pale as diamond when the
- >two recieved them, but that their mingled blood permanently stained the
- >stones, and the appear to this day to be deep red rubies."
- >
-
- The stones (originally part of the Bhelliom) had the blue colour
- removed from them by the main part of the Bhelliom itself (when they
- were made), and were stained red by the iron in the blood of the
- original Sparhawk and King Antor. (It is this iron which gives
- Sparhawk his power over the stone)
-
- Donal.
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- If the opinions above are anyone else's, that's their problem.
-