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Giant-troth Revelstone, ancient ward-
Heart and door of Earthfriend's main:
Preserve the true with Power's sword,
Thou ages-Keeper, mountain-reign.


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The Somberlain wrote:And since I don't know what a bif whale is.... I'll take it as a compliment. If you were even referring to mine.
Meant to be big whale, not bif whale ... cause it kind of looks like a great whale rising out of the water. Mind you, also looks a bit like the prow of a ship, and, well, I reckon its getting VERY close the reality. Thanks for the explanation about the front formation being solely the watchtower. Revelstone is HUGE! :)

Looks great!
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Yep, I just revisited the image, considering its the watchtower, and behind is the city proper, yep, great likeness!
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For a moment, Covenant could not respond. But then a memory came back to him - a recollection of the formal salutation that the people of Revelstone had formerly given to the Giants. Hail and welcome, inheritor of Land's loyalty. Welcome whole or hurt, in boon or bane - ask or give. To any requiring name we will not fail. In a husky voice, he breathed:

"Giant-troth Revelstone, ancient ward-
Heart and door of Earthfriend's main:
Preserve the true with Power's sword,
Thou ages-Keeper, mountain-reign."

At that, the First turned toward him; and for an instant her face was concentrated with weeping as if he had touched her deep Giantish love of stone. Almost immediately she recovered her sternness - but not before he had seen how absolutely she was ready now to serve him. Gruffly, she said, "Thomas Covenant, I have titled you Giantfriend, but it is not enough. You are the Earthfriend. No other name suffices."
Aah Fist, one of my all-time favourite passages.

Is it just me? Or are The Somberlain's pics not showing? I've been fiddling with my old TrueSpace to see what I could come up with...maybe I'll upload them at some point...but I'm mainly waiting to get the newest version before I take a real stab at it. (This is not my forte though, so don't expect much ok? ;) )

I just had a rough moment reading Fists quote though, where it says closed courtyard...but after a moments uncertainty, I'm assuming it's closed as in surrounded, rather than roofed over. Right?

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My pictures appear to have gone, yeah. I can't remember where I hosted them, or what. However, now that I have broadband, I'll be able to download some software to continue detailing the place. So you can expect more to come.

Also, it's got to just be surrounded (the courtyard). There's a great big Gilden tree growing in the middle.
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Excellent point. :D

And I look forward to more.

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BTW, It appears that someone painted a picture of Revelstone as part of the pitch for the Covenant Movie. And SRD, unusually enough, seemed to admire it! It's all in the Gradual Interview for October 5.
In the Gradual Interview was wrote:in all these years I've only seen one painting that made me feel the way the Land feels in my imagination (it was a rendition of Revelstone for the still-entirely-hypothetical film of "Lord Foul's Bane"), and I don't even know who painted it.
(10/05/2005)
I want to see that soooo bad...
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So do I, WF!
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One thing people may be forgetting when speaking of the size is that Revelstone was created by Giants. A thousand-foot tower to us would be a five-hundred foot tower to them.
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Post by sea_dreamer01 »

Hey, im kinda new. Just reading the latest book....wow so far.

well i always thort of revelstone as like a modded version of the lord of the rings gondor. The way that gondor was built into the big rock is kind of what i expect in revelstone. I would think that giants would respect the nature of the rock and so try and keep revelstone as natural as possible. Kind of like an intrication of man/giant and earth.

i would love to b able to create a version like you guys, but i dont think i have the patience. If only...
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hehehe thanks, wow a whole 3 posts!! oyeah!!
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Post by Cmdr_Floyd »

As Landwaster commented I also see Revelstone as like the prow of a ship viewed head on with the tower being at point....after all the Giants were a seafaring people......
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