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Not to mention she STILL hasn't earned a 3rd (or in 4th) name darius_sedai Send a noteboard - 17/06/2010 04:16:57 PM
Lanfear is formed of root words meaning daughter (of the) night, and this compound word itself appears to be a poetic name for the Moon in the OT. That's most likely not the common name for "moon".

There's nothing pejorative in the name itself, it's not a scron name, Mierin made it up herself.



She's such a drama queen


What's especially hilarious about Lanfear is that even serving the Shadow, she managed to find a way to be in the spotlight. In all the concepts of darkness, shadow, night etc. she chose one of the two things luminous (stars and moon) and settled from the biggest brightest one of the two (she wouldn't settle for small distant lights!). The whole irony is that unlike the small stars, the Moon has no light of her own to cast, she only reflects the sun's - and I'm pretty sure that didn't occur to Lanfear when she chose the name.

Lanfear's sigil shows the Moon as the Queen among the smaller stars. They're also between the pincers of the crescent, as if she controls them and can crush them. Of course, as the moon waxes, those stars would disappear.

She sure has a high opinion of herself. She sees herself as the Light coming out of darkness. In truth, she just reflects the daylight from the sun on the other side of the earth. When the sun's not around, she's complete darkness.


Scornful or otherwise! She had to give herself the name while, while others "earned" the scorn names no less than they did their honorifics!

I find it interesting that society at large had clearly given the likes of Ishamael, Graendal and Semirhage what amount to 4th names, but Meirin had to name herself. No wonder she's got to make herself appear "brighter" in the sky than she is
Domani Drag Queen in the White Tower ... Aran'gar watch out!
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Forsaken translations - 17/06/2010 09:16:36 AM 2441 Views
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or that *NM* - 17/06/2010 10:45:49 PM 791 Views
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Re: Good luck with that - 17/06/2010 03:24:52 PM 1309 Views
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Not to mention she STILL hasn't earned a 3rd (or in 4th) name - 17/06/2010 04:16:57 PM 1385 Views
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I'm not being very clear - 17/06/2010 10:14:10 PM 1367 Views
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Re: I'm not being very clear - 18/06/2010 03:33:12 PM 1370 Views
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Well, with this point I don't disagree.. *NM* - 17/06/2010 11:10:34 PM 1278 Views
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not ballsy, just psycho - 20/06/2010 07:25:46 PM 1399 Views
Like Etzel I don't agree - 17/06/2010 08:30:37 PM 1269 Views
I think she's a weak villain - 17/06/2010 08:58:01 PM 1236 Views
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Interesting *NM* - 17/06/2010 08:33:03 PM 776 Views
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And Dragon translations... - 17/06/2010 10:53:02 PM 1483 Views
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A nice article about the Old Tongue and my ramblings - 18/06/2010 11:14:24 AM 7535 Views

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