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[Kaioku]

Aroihkin wrote...

Kaioku wrote...

Guys, I have a question. When do you think Zevran had his facial tattoo done? Do you (generally) think it's a dalish- or a crow thing? I myself don't see the dalish putting a needle to a newborn's face, so I suppose it's one he had done to accentuate his facial features... but when?
Because I'm currently drawing an eight-nine-ish year old Zev, and I'm wondering whether or not I should just turn off that layer it's on. :/

IIRC, the Dalish don't tattoo faces at all until coming-of-age. So it's either a Crow/Antivan thing, or something he had done when he briefly ran off to hang out with the Dalish. Probably Antivan/Crow, though, since he talks at one point about other tattoos on him that are sacred to the Crows, etc.

*snip*

Alright, thanks. :3

Anyway, see what I mean?

[Cuddlezarro]

ejoslin wrote...

Yay! Go me! I forgot to take anything out of the freezer for dinner tonight! I blame CZ because he's probably not reading right now and he's as good a scapegoat as any.

Gah, my family gets annoyed at me when I don't feed them. SO fussy

Edit: I have no clue why I typed this here.  So ummmmm, yeh, ducking out now...

Second edit: And no sami jo, your mind is NOT the only one that went there!

orlly

only charsen has that excuse thank you very much and hes just as much a distraction on me

[Aroihkin]

SurrealSadi wrote...

Aroihkin wrote...

SurrealSadi wrote...
Amberdrake was a little too...annoying
for my tastes... Silverfox, however....[smilie]../../../images/forum/emoticons/love.png[/smilie]

EDIT: Really? Ah, I suppose Drake isn't for everyone. He was our only pacifist for a while, though, in a game full of ass-kickers and zombies. The poor guy. And one of the only two medic-types for a long time... and then the only one. DX

I <3 the Drake, in all his insecure workaholic silliness. Sanzo was right when he said the guy needs some damn vices, though.

*chuckle* I've read those three books so often they nearly fell apart. Drake got on my nerves so quickly... At least Silverfox had a spine and actually admitted to Firesong he loved him... It took Drake how long to admit it to Winterhart?

I actually found the Winterhart thing to be far too fast. One minute he doesn't like her, the next minute it's Twuu Wuv ™. I like Winterhart, too, but the moment Black Gryphon tries to do romance was the moment I have to skim in my re-reads.

Drake's pretty screwed up in the head, just as much as any Antivan Crow or Saiyuki boy, once you start crawling around in his head.

http://empathic-heal...nal.com/profile is my Amberdrake RP journal, "Scene list" links to most of his scenes... although they are quite old, I warn you. And there is much NSFW in the Sanzo ones. Cough.

[Creature 1]

soignee wrote...

I think it's a crow thing, like his second name aligning him to what part of the Crows he was part of. He was a slave, remember.

*perks ears*  Is this lore I am not familiar with? 

[SurrealSadi]

Aroihkin wrote...

SurrealSadi wrote...

Aroihkin wrote...

SurrealSadi wrote...
Amberdrake was a little too...annoying
for my tastes... Silverfox, however....[smilie]../../../images/forum/emoticons/love.png[/smilie]

EDIT: Really? Ah, I suppose Drake isn't for everyone. He was our only pacifist for a while, though, in a game full of ass-kickers and zombies. The poor guy. And one of the only two medic-types for a long time... and then the only one. DX

I <3 the Drake, in all his insecure workaholic silliness. Sanzo was right when he said the guy needs some damn vices, though.

*chuckle* I've read those three books so often they nearly fell apart. Drake got on my nerves so quickly... At least Silverfox had a spine and actually admitted to Firesong he loved him... It took Drake how long to admit it to Winterhart?

I actually found the Winterhart thing to be far too fast. One minute he doesn't like her, the next minute it's Twuu Wuv ™. I like Winterhart, too, but the moment Black Gryphon tries to do romance was the moment I have to skim in my re-reads.

Drake's pretty screwed up in the head, just as much as any Antivan Crow or Saiyuki boy, once you start crawling around in his head.

http://empathic-heal...nal.com/profile is my Amberdrake RP journal, "Scene list" links to most of his scenes... although they are quite old, I warn you. And there is much NSFW in the Sanzo ones. Cough.

I'll agree that Drake was pretty f*cked in the head... after what his childhood is described as...  I think the fact that she was writing those three books to give a background to the Mage Winds/Storms trilogies got the best of her and she had to find a way to flesh them out more and kinda shoved those two together. Ah well. My favorite character in the Mage Wars books was Skandranon... and only because he was bloody funny.

[soignee]

Creature 1 wrote...

soignee wrote...

I think it's a crow thing, like his second name aligning him to what part of the Crows he was part of. He was a slave, remember.

*perks ears*  Is this lore I am not familiar with? 

I pulled it out of the recesses out of my mind mostly, don't take it as lore... it's an "I think," in the sense that surnames are only meant for nobles and such in Thedas. So no idea how the lower caste Origins have one.

I just liked the parallel of my Brosca being marked with a brand and Zevran being marked as a crow as well, as he goes on about tattoos in other places being sacred to Crows in banter.

[ejoslin]

Cuddlezarro wrote...

ejoslin wrote...

Yay! Go me! I forgot to take anything out of the freezer for dinner tonight! I blame CZ because he's probably not reading right now and he's as good a scapegoat as any.

Gah, my family gets annoyed at me when I don't feed them. SO fussy

Edit: I have no clue why I typed this here.  So ummmmm, yeh, ducking out now...

Second edit: And no sami jo, your mind is NOT the only one that went there!

orlly

only charsen has that excuse thank you very much and hes just as much a distraction on me

Damn, so busted.  Ok, I admit it. I lied!  

Modifié par ejoslin, 06 avril 2010 - 10:33 .

[SurrealSadi]

soignee wrote...

Creature 1 wrote...

soignee wrote...

I think it's a crow thing, like his second name aligning him to what part of the Crows he was part of. He was a slave, remember.

*perks ears*  Is this lore I am not familiar with? 

I pulled it out of the recesses out of my mind mostly, don't take it as lore... it's an "I think," in the sense that surnames are only meant for nobles and such in Thedas. So no idea how the lower caste Origins have one.

I just liked the parallel of my Brosca being marked with a brand and Zevran being marked as a crow as well, as he goes on about tattoos in other places being sacred to Crows in banter.

In the Banter with Leliana about his facial tattoos, he mentions that he cannot explain what it means, but that it's something to do with being a Crow. He also goes on about how some of the tattoos he has are sacred to the Crows, and other are designed to accentuate the flow of his muscles and such, stating that most of his tattoos aren't visible because of the armor/clothing.

[Aroihkin]

SurrealSadi wrote...

Aroihkin wrote...

SurrealSadi wrote...

Aroihkin wrote...

SurrealSadi wrote...
Amberdrake was a little too...annoying
for my tastes... Silverfox, however....[smilie]../../../images/forum/emoticons/love.png[/smilie]

EDIT: Really? Ah, I suppose Drake isn't for everyone. He was our only pacifist for a while, though, in a game full of ass-kickers and zombies. The poor guy. And one of the only two medic-types for a long time... and then the only one. DX

I <3 the Drake, in all his insecure workaholic silliness. Sanzo was right when he said the guy needs some damn vices, though.

*chuckle* I've read those three books so often they nearly fell apart. Drake got on my nerves so quickly... At least Silverfox had a spine and actually admitted to Firesong he loved him... It took Drake how long to admit it to Winterhart?

I actually found the Winterhart thing to be far too fast. One minute he doesn't like her, the next minute it's Twuu Wuv ™. I like Winterhart, too, but the moment Black Gryphon tries to do romance was the moment I have to skim in my re-reads.

Drake's pretty screwed up in the head, just as much as any Antivan Crow or Saiyuki boy, once you start crawling around in his head.

http://empathic-heal...nal.com/profile is my Amberdrake RP journal, "Scene list" links to most of his scenes... although they are quite old, I warn you. And there is much NSFW in the Sanzo ones. Cough.

I'll agree that Drake was pretty f*cked in the head... after what his childhood is described as...  I think the fact that she was writing those three books to give a background to the Mage Winds/Storms trilogies got the best of her and she had to find a way to flesh them out more and kinda shoved those two together. Ah well. My favorite character in the Mage Wars books was Skandranon... and only because he was bloody funny.

*grins* I played him, too, but after a while Drake just had more to do and Skan faded into NPC status. Him taking over and re-shaping the top story of a downtown apartment building into a lair was pretty awesome, though.

But yeah, Drake was pretty FUBAR'd, and never had a chance to decompress. He went from the Chirurgeon's College to his trek across country, to Silverveil, to Lorshallen, and then almost directly into the ten-year Mage War. The guy never had a chance to get over anything until after the first book. I found him framing himself for murder in the second interesting, and him and Skan busting into the wilderness after their kids was awesome in the third.

Silverblade: *seeing Drake mused and muddy and bleeding and fighting for the very first time in her life* Holy @#$%, Dad is kind of a badass...

But no, not a fan of the Instant Lackey Romance. Winterhart and Drake had more potential than that. "I hate you!" "I hate you too!" *two pages later* "WE ARE MADLY IN LOVE FOREVER."

EDIT: In apology for being so offtopic, here, have my one fanart I did of Amberdrake and Skandranon:


Full image @ DeviantArt
http://aroihkin.devi...n-Arms-43352247

I... dabble in MS Paint. A little.

Modifié par Aroihkin, 06 avril 2010 - 10:42 .

[sami jo]

SurrealSadi wrote...

Aroihkin wrote...

SurrealSadi wrote...

Aroihkin wrote...

SurrealSadi wrote...
Amberdrake was a little too...annoying
for my tastes... Silverfox, however....[smilie]../../../images/forum/emoticons/love.png[/smilie]

EDIT: Really? Ah, I suppose Drake isn't for everyone. He was our only pacifist for a while, though, in a game full of ass-kickers and zombies. The poor guy. And one of the only two medic-types for a long time... and then the only one. DX

I <3 the Drake, in all his insecure workaholic silliness. Sanzo was right when he said the guy needs some damn vices, though.

*chuckle* I've read those three books so often they nearly fell apart. Drake got on my nerves so quickly... At least Silverfox had a spine and actually admitted to Firesong he loved him... It took Drake how long to admit it to Winterhart?

I actually found the Winterhart thing to be far too fast. One minute he doesn't like her, the next minute it's Twuu Wuv ™. I like Winterhart, too, but the moment Black Gryphon tries to do romance was the moment I have to skim in my re-reads.

Drake's pretty screwed up in the head, just as much as any Antivan Crow or Saiyuki boy, once you start crawling around in his head.

http://empathic-heal...nal.com/profile is my Amberdrake RP journal, "Scene list" links to most of his scenes... although they are quite old, I warn you. And there is much NSFW in the Sanzo ones. Cough.

I'll agree that Drake was pretty f*cked in the head... after what his childhood is described as...  I think the fact that she was writing those three books to give a background to the Mage Winds/Storms trilogies got the best of her and she had to find a way to flesh them out more and kinda shoved those two together. Ah well. My favorite character in the Mage Wars books was Skandranon... and only because he was bloody funny.

ALL of the protagonists in the Valdemar series are a bit biffed.  That's why we love them.  And yes, Skan... definitely my favorite!

[SurrealSadi]

Aroihkin wrote...

SurrealSadi wrote...

Aroihkin wrote...

SurrealSadi wrote...

Aroihkin wrote...

SurrealSadi wrote...
Amberdrake was a little too...annoying
for my tastes... Silverfox, however....[smilie]../../../images/forum/emoticons/love.png[/smilie]

EDIT: Really? Ah, I suppose Drake isn't for everyone. He was our only pacifist for a while, though, in a game full of ass-kickers and zombies. The poor guy. And one of the only two medic-types for a long time... and then the only one. DX

I <3 the Drake, in all his insecure workaholic silliness. Sanzo was right when he said the guy needs some damn vices, though.

*chuckle* I've read those three books so often they nearly fell apart. Drake got on my nerves so quickly... At least Silverfox had a spine and actually admitted to Firesong he loved him... It took Drake how long to admit it to Winterhart?

I actually found the Winterhart thing to be far too fast. One minute he doesn't like her, the next minute it's Twuu Wuv ™. I like Winterhart, too, but the moment Black Gryphon tries to do romance was the moment I have to skim in my re-reads.

Drake's pretty screwed up in the head, just as much as any Antivan Crow or Saiyuki boy, once you start crawling around in his head.

http://empathic-heal...nal.com/profile is my Amberdrake RP journal, "Scene list" links to most of his scenes... although they are quite old, I warn you. And there is much NSFW in the Sanzo ones. Cough.

I'll agree that Drake was pretty f*cked in the head... after what his childhood is described as...  I think the fact that she was writing those three books to give a background to the Mage Winds/Storms trilogies got the best of her and she had to find a way to flesh them out more and kinda shoved those two together. Ah well. My favorite character in the Mage Wars books was Skandranon... and only because he was bloody funny.

*grins* I played him, too, but after a while Drake just had more to do and Skan faded into NPC status. Him taking over and re-shaping the top story of a downtown apartment building into a lair was pretty awesome, though.

But yeah, Drake was pretty FUBAR'd, and never had a chance to decompress. He went from the Chirurgeon's College to his trek across country, to Silverveil, to Lorshallen, and then almost directly into the ten-year Mage War. The guy never had a chance to get over anything until after the first book. I found him framing himself for murder in the second interesting, and him and Skan busting into the wilderness after their kids was awesome in the third.

Silverblade: *seeing Drake mused and muddy and bleeding and fighting for the very first time in her life* Holy @#$%, Dad is kind of a badass...

But no, not a fan of the Instant Lackey Romance. Winterhart and Drake had more potential than that. "I hate you!" "I hate you too!" *two pages later* "WE ARE MADLY IN LOVE FOREVER."

Yeah, Drake never really had a chance... Granted, yes, that was awesome having Blade watch her pacifist father kicking so much arse trying to save her and Tadrith. But the insta-lifebond with him and Winterhart just felt artificial.

[SurrealSadi]

sami jo wrote...

SurrealSadi wrote...

Aroihkin wrote...

SurrealSadi wrote...

Aroihkin wrote...

SurrealSadi wrote...
Amberdrake was a little too...annoying
for my tastes... Silverfox, however....[smilie]../../../images/forum/emoticons/love.png[/smilie]

EDIT: Really? Ah, I suppose Drake isn't for everyone. He was our only pacifist for a while, though, in a game full of ass-kickers and zombies. The poor guy. And one of the only two medic-types for a long time... and then the only one. DX

I <3 the Drake, in all his insecure workaholic silliness. Sanzo was right when he said the guy needs some damn vices, though.

*chuckle* I've read those three books so often they nearly fell apart. Drake got on my nerves so quickly... At least Silverfox had a spine and actually admitted to Firesong he loved him... It took Drake how long to admit it to Winterhart?

I actually found the Winterhart thing to be far too fast. One minute he doesn't like her, the next minute it's Twuu Wuv ™. I like Winterhart, too, but the moment Black Gryphon tries to do romance was the moment I have to skim in my re-reads.

Drake's pretty screwed up in the head, just as much as any Antivan Crow or Saiyuki boy, once you start crawling around in his head.

http://empathic-heal...nal.com/profile is my Amberdrake RP journal, "Scene list" links to most of his scenes... although they are quite old, I warn you. And there is much NSFW in the Sanzo ones. Cough.

I'll agree that Drake was pretty f*cked in the head... after what his childhood is described as...  I think the fact that she was writing those three books to give a background to the Mage Winds/Storms trilogies got the best of her and she had to find a way to flesh them out more and kinda shoved those two together. Ah well. My favorite character in the Mage Wars books was Skandranon... and only because he was bloody funny.

ALL of the protagonists in the Valdemar series are a bit biffed.  That's why we love them.  And yes, Skan... definitely my favorite!

I love finding Valdemar fans! I've yet to read the Collegium books though... Last ones I read was the prequel books for Selenay's reign.

[sami jo]

SurrealSadi wrote...

sami jo wrote...

SurrealSadi wrote...

Aroihkin wrote...

SurrealSadi wrote...

Aroihkin wrote...

SurrealSadi wrote...
Amberdrake was a little too...annoying
for my tastes... Silverfox, however....[smilie]../../../images/forum/emoticons/love.png[/smilie]

EDIT: Really? Ah, I suppose Drake isn't for everyone. He was our only pacifist for a while, though, in a game full of ass-kickers and zombies. The poor guy. And one of the only two medic-types for a long time... and then the only one. DX

I <3 the Drake, in all his insecure workaholic silliness. Sanzo was right when he said the guy needs some damn vices, though.

*chuckle* I've read those three books so often they nearly fell apart. Drake got on my nerves so quickly... At least Silverfox had a spine and actually admitted to Firesong he loved him... It took Drake how long to admit it to Winterhart?

I actually found the Winterhart thing to be far too fast. One minute he doesn't like her, the next minute it's Twuu Wuv ™. I like Winterhart, too, but the moment Black Gryphon tries to do romance was the moment I have to skim in my re-reads.

Drake's pretty screwed up in the head, just as much as any Antivan Crow or Saiyuki boy, once you start crawling around in his head.

http://empathic-heal...nal.com/profile is my Amberdrake RP journal, "Scene list" links to most of his scenes... although they are quite old, I warn you. And there is much NSFW in the Sanzo ones. Cough.

I'll agree that Drake was pretty f*cked in the head... after what his childhood is described as...  I think the fact that she was writing those three books to give a background to the Mage Winds/Storms trilogies got the best of her and she had to find a way to flesh them out more and kinda shoved those two together. Ah well. My favorite character in the Mage Wars books was Skandranon... and only because he was bloody funny.

ALL of the protagonists in the Valdemar series are a bit biffed.  That's why we love them.  And yes, Skan... definitely my favorite!

I love finding Valdemar fans! I've yet to read the Collegium books though... Last ones I read was the prequel books for Selenay's reign.

I have them all and multiple copies of several.  Oddly, I have almost no patience for anything else she writes.  My current obsession is Pat Rothfuss, though.  *impatiently waits for book 2 and cackles over his blog*

Edited to make it better.
2nd edit because clearly one beer has eliminated my ability to type.

Modifié par sami jo, 06 avril 2010 - 10:50 .

[Aroihkin]

Also, wow this forum's code is laggy! I added fanart to my last bit about Drake, and damned if I know if it showed up. XD

Edit: Oh, there it goes. <_< NOTHING TO SEE HERE.

Modifié par Aroihkin, 06 avril 2010 - 10:47 .

[jenovan]

SurrealSadi wrote...

sami jo wrote...

ALL of the protagonists in the Valdemar series are a bit biffed.  That's why we love them.  And yes, Skan... definitely my favorite!

I love finding Valdemar fans! I've yet to read the Collegium books though... Last ones I read was the prequel books for Selenay's reign.

Watch as the Valdemar fans steal the thread!
I liked Amberdrake, more or less... probably my favorite of that trilogy, at any rate.
I'm mostly a Vanyel kinda girl, though.

[SurrealSadi]

sami jo wrote...

SurrealSadi wrote...

sami jo wrote...

SurrealSadi wrote...

Aroihkin wrote...

SurrealSadi wrote...

Aroihkin wrote...

SurrealSadi wrote...
Amberdrake was a little too...annoying
for my tastes... Silverfox, however....[smilie]../../../images/forum/emoticons/love.png[/smilie]

EDIT: Really? Ah, I suppose Drake isn't for everyone. He was our only pacifist for a while, though, in a game full of ass-kickers and zombies. The poor guy. And one of the only two medic-types for a long time... and then the only one. DX

I <3 the Drake, in all his insecure workaholic silliness. Sanzo was right when he said the guy needs some damn vices, though.

*chuckle* I've read those three books so often they nearly fell apart. Drake got on my nerves so quickly... At least Silverfox had a spine and actually admitted to Firesong he loved him... It took Drake how long to admit it to Winterhart?

I actually found the Winterhart thing to be far too fast. One minute he doesn't like her, the next minute it's Twuu Wuv ™. I like Winterhart, too, but the moment Black Gryphon tries to do romance was the moment I have to skim in my re-reads.

Drake's pretty screwed up in the head, just as much as any Antivan Crow or Saiyuki boy, once you start crawling around in his head.

http://empathic-heal...nal.com/profile is my Amberdrake RP journal, "Scene list" links to most of his scenes... although they are quite old, I warn you. And there is much NSFW in the Sanzo ones. Cough.

I'll agree that Drake was pretty f*cked in the head... after what his childhood is described as...  I think the fact that she was writing those three books to give a background to the Mage Winds/Storms trilogies got the best of her and she had to find a way to flesh them out more and kinda shoved those two together. Ah well. My favorite character in the Mage Wars books was Skandranon... and only because he was bloody funny.

ALL of the protagonists in the Valdemar series are a bit biffed.  That's why we love them.  And yes, Skan... definitely my favorite!

I love finding Valdemar fans! I've yet to read the Collegium books though... Last ones I read was the prequel books for Selenay's reign.

i have them all and multiple copies of several.  Oddly, I have almost no patiene for anything else she writes.  My current obsession is Pat Rothfuss, though.  *impatiently waits for book 2 and cackles over his blog*

*chuckle* I've read the first two books in her Bedlam Bard books, and rolled through both of them. Elves in modern day LA? Epically funny. I need to read the rest eventually.

@Aroihkin: Don't worry about being off-topic! Happens all the time!

[sami jo]

jenovan wrote...

SurrealSadi wrote...

sami jo wrote...

ALL of the protagonists in the Valdemar series are a bit biffed.  That's why we love them.  And yes, Skan... definitely my favorite!

I love finding Valdemar fans! I've yet to read the Collegium books though... Last ones I read was the prequel books for Selenay's reign.

Watch as the Valdemar fans steal the thread!
I liked Amberdrake, more or less... probably my favorite of that trilogy, at any rate.
I'm mostly a Vanyel kinda girl, though.

This would be how my favorite mage got named Ashke.

[SurrealSadi]

jenovan wrote...

SurrealSadi wrote...

sami jo wrote...

ALL of the protagonists in the Valdemar series are a bit biffed.  That's why we love them.  And yes, Skan... definitely my favorite!

I love finding Valdemar fans! I've yet to read the Collegium books though... Last ones I read was the prequel books for Selenay's reign.

Watch as the Valdemar fans steal the thread!
I liked Amberdrake, more or less... probably my favorite of that trilogy, at any rate.
I'm mostly a Vanyel kinda girl, though.

I felt so bad for Vanyel! Finds his true love, loses his true love, find his true love again, then ends up stuck in a bunch of trees for a few hundred years till a descendant needs their help to stop the world from going Ka-boom.

[SurrealSadi]

sami jo wrote...

jenovan wrote...

SurrealSadi wrote...

sami jo wrote...

ALL of the protagonists in the Valdemar series are a bit biffed.  That's why we love them.  And yes, Skan... definitely my favorite!

I love finding Valdemar fans! I've yet to read the Collegium books though... Last ones I read was the prequel books for Selenay's reign.

Watch as the Valdemar fans steal the thread!
I liked Amberdrake, more or less... probably my favorite of that trilogy, at any rate.
I'm mostly a Vanyel kinda girl, though.

This would be how my favorite mage got named Ashke.

Great.. Now I need to make a mage named Lendel....

[Aroihkin]

Everyone loves Vanyel. XD I like him too, but I've a special spot in my heart for the Kestra'chern. Him being a hot native guy with blue blue eyes doesn't hurt. UNF.

Oh yes, Amberdrake, you can listen to my problems ANY DAY OF THE WEEK. And he totally invented the "Come back to my tent for a massage" line.

EDIT: I'd better be careful or I'll be writing "Zevran goes to Ka'venusho" fanfiction. THIS WOULD BE BAD. Probably.

Zevran: May I rest my head on your broad, firm pectoral muscles? I wish to cry.
Amberdrake: *sigh*

Modifié par Aroihkin, 06 avril 2010 - 10:56 .

[SurrealSadi]

And then there's Alberich... Something about him was

[SurrealSadi]

Aroihkin wrote...

Everyone loves Vanyel. XD I like him too, but I've a special spot in my heart for the Kestra'chern. Him being a hot native guy with blue blue eyes doesn't hurt. UNF.

Oh yes, Amberdrake, you can listen to my problems ANY DAY OF THE WEEK. And he totally invented the "Come back to my tent for a massage" line.

EDIT: I'd better be careful or I'll be writing "Zevran goes to Ka'venusho" fanfiction. THIS WOULD BE BAD. Probably.

Zevran: May I rest my head on your broad, firm pectoral muscles? I wish to cry.
Amberdrake: *sigh*

That would NOT be bad at all.

[sami jo]

Aroihkin wrote...

Everyone loves Vanyel. XD I like him too, but I've a special spot in my heart for the Kestra'chern. Him being a hot native guy with blue blue eyes doesn't hurt. UNF.

Oh yes, Amberdrake, you can listen to my problems ANY DAY OF THE WEEK. And he totally invented the "Come back to my tent for a massage" line.

I like Drake, and I'm rather partial to Silverfox.  Vanyel hooked me on the series, though, so I am a little partial to him.  Elsepth is a bit more my speed, even if she doesn't swing my way. 

[Creature 1]

I never really got into her books. The characters crashed in a magical dead zone and had to figure out what caused it before they got killed. I can't remember any more of it, though.