which is your favorite unfettered one?

Post by **duchess of malfi** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 7:32 am

Which is your favorite unfettered one, and why?
I've always thought the first one we meet, the one who studied the animals and wraiths would be a cool person to get to know! I love animals, too.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 9:45 am

I really liked the guy that interprets dreams. I just thought he was very mysterious for some reason!
I liked the descripttion of him

He stopped singing when he saw Covenant and Elena, but his appearance sustained his influence over them. He wore a long flowing robe that seemed to have no colour of it's own; instead it caught the shades around it, so that it was grass-green below his waist, azure on his shoulders, and the rock and snow of the mountains flickered on his right side. His unkempt hair flared, reflecting the sun.

And he kind of saved TC from the uncomfortable situation at Glimmermere

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 2:35 pm

I always liked the healer. Her sacrifice was...painful to say the least!

Post by **Ryzel** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 3:58 pm

I have to say that although I liked the idea of unfettering I never found any of the ones we meet in the chronicles to be particularly admirable.

The reason for this is that I feel that the unfettered ones somehow had abandoned the land to pursue their own private little matters. However stunted the lore of the new lords were by the oath of peace they at least had their dedication and service to the land. What good did ever an unfettered one do for the land? Well they all helped in their small ways I guess, and it definitely was one who saved TC in the Morinmoss. Still I feel like they are definitely a footnote in the lands history, and more than anything is this proved by the fact that Lord Foul ignores them unless they directly interfere with his plans or run afoul of a raver.

Post by **fightingmyinstincts** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 6:57 pm

The healer @ Morinmoss...probably one of the best-developed small-part characters I've ever read...

Post by **Lord Mhoram** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 10:57 pm

Definitely the dream one! He was cool!

Post by **Damelon** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 1:51 am

The guy who read the history of the Land in the rocks. How cool is that! I always get sad when I read of his, rather descriptive, death.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 2:48 am

Ryzel,
Here's the Healer:

She knew with certainty that if she had comprehended when she was young what her decisions would cost, she would never have taken the Rites of Unfettering, never have surrendered to the secret power yearning for birth within her.

Based on that, I don't think she had much choice. It sounds like her "own private little matter" was a calling that I suspect was stronger than any that humans in our world get. Mozart's brain was wired for music like nobody else's. But the Healer had an outside force trying to work through her. She thinks that she would have been able to resist it if she had understood the consequences. But since she had no concept of the consequences, denying this force might not have even occured to her.

fightingmyinstincts,
I agree! We really get a strong feeling for her.

Anyway, regarding the vote, I can't. My feelings are:

The one in Andelain was very cool!

The cave guy had the coolest power.

The healer was the bravest. And not just the bravest Unfettered.

The dream interpreter had the mystery thing going for him. And I loved when he dismissed Elena.

Post by **dukkha** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 3:49 am

Gotta be the healer. None of the others are characterized enough. It sounds like the Wraith guy might have been cool...but he didn't last long.

Post by **Reisheiruhime** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 1:29 am

The guy who read the Land's history in rocks. I believe my Raver character was the one who killed him. "Bad Turiya! Bad Bad Bad!!!!" hehe...

Unfettered Ones are cool!

Post by **phoebe** » Fri Apr 04, 2003 8:35 am

hey if it has any relevance now... that guest was actually me
and i want my

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damn server didn't log me in

Post by **I am not Joan** » Tue Apr 08, 2003 3:58 am

I liked the healer best.

Post by **duchess of malfi** » Tue Apr 08, 2003 4:54 am

Looks like the Healer is a quite popular character!

Post by **Ryzel** » Tue Apr 08, 2003 7:26 pm

Well she is the only unfettered one that has her own chapter. It stands to reason that she should be better represented in the books, and thus more popular.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Tue Apr 08, 2003 8:18 pm

Hey, it's I am not Joan!

Love that nick!

Post by **Dag son of Dag** » Fri Apr 18, 2003 1:12 pm

I like all of the Unfettered Ones, and I don`t agree with Ryzel when he says that they were unimported. Just think about it: the one in Andelain saved Covenant and Atiaran and made sure the message was brought to Revelstone. The Healer helped Covenant go on, and so on. Maybe the Creator inspired their personal visions, because he knew that they would be needed to help Covenant? I know he isn`t allowed to interfere in the Land, but I`m sure he could put some dreams in people`s heads and in that way make them follow some vision. Maybe the purpose of these Unfettered Ones is to help in a time of crisis (when Covenant comes to the Land), even though they don`t know it themselves? They certainly weren`t useless!

Post by **Cord Hurn** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 4:39 am

The cave guy who studied history in rocks is my favorite, because he had a passion for talking about what he had learned.

"Stone is alive. Do you see it? You are Stonedownor--do you see it? Yes, alive--alive and alert. Attentive. Everything--everything which transpires upon or within the Earth is seen--beheld--by the Earthrock.
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"But the--the process--the action of this seeing is slow. Lives like mine are futilely swift--Time---time!--is consumed as the seeing spreads--from the outer surfaces inward. And this time varies. Some veins pass their perception in to the mountain roots in millennia. Others require millennia of millennia.
"Here...can be seen the entire ancient history of the Land. For one whose work is to see. In these myriad facets are the myriad perceptions of all that has occurred. All!
"It is my work to see--and to discover the order--and to preserve--so that the whole life of the Land may be known.
"Since the coming of the Wraiths, I have studied the fate of the One Forest. I have seen it since the first seed grew to become the great Tree. I have seen its awakening--its awareness--the peaceful communion of its Land-spanning conciousness. I have seen Forestals born and slain. I have seen the Colossus of the Fall exercise its interdict. The hand of the Forest is upon me. Here.
"I see men with axes--men of the ground with blades formed from the bones of the ground--I see them cut!
"I am Woodhelvinnin. In this rock I see the desecration of trees. You are Stonedownor. You bear a rare fragment of the High Wood, precious lomillialor.
"Give it to me! ... It will help me see.... My life is not the equal of this rock."

(With acknowledgement to the late, great Furl's Fire for putting together those quotes in the thread for her "message to Revelstone" chapter dissection.)

Post by **Vraith** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 5:03 pm

Heh...deep thread resurrection.
I have to say I liked them all...though if forced to choose, right now...dream one. [subject to change without notice].
To me they stood for something...and even after the end of the Last, might still...
The idea that there is ALWAYS more mystery. Doesn't matter if you're Insequent, High Lord, Elohim...hell, even the Creator, or Despiser.
There will always be the Unknown...and it will always matter to try pursue it.

Post by **Holsety** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 6:06 am

I really thought the chapter with the Morinmoss healer was beatiful. Have to go with her.

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