10-11-2013, 06:18 AM
Was he actually half-Finn or a human child born on a Finn world?
Most likely he a human child born on the Finn world. Why, nobody knows. For all we know there is a race of humans that inhabit the Finn realms. *shrug. That he came from such a place would have attributed to the legend of being half-race himself.
I thought about the idea of half-Finn by blood. That one sounds -- awesome, actually -- but more outlandish. And you know me, i'm nothing if not subtle. *grin.
Or there could be a third alternative. That it's neither about being 'human' or 'half-finn' but he's some other race altogether. If there are humans that inhabit the finn realms, they would probably be something not quite like earth humans. Either some sort of twist of the Pattern keeps them connected to the Finns, kind of like a Finnish Aes Sedai-warder bond. Or they were the descendants of all 'earth humans' kept on world to serve as 'emo-food sources', like cattle that became too numerous to stock, so they are allowed to graze freely. We know so little about Finns. . . .
You know how Myrddraal are the throwbacks to the the trolloc's human stock. We know there are 'male' and 'female' Finn, but we don't know whether they live and breed as regular species. Perhaps they are spontaneously born among whatever "human" species inhabits their planet. And such Finn-babies are collected by the rest of their powerful kind. Or vice versa. Every once in a while the Finn race produces a 'throwback' to some original blend which is born as a 'human' child.
I like the idea of having a blood and soul connection to the Finns. But either way, that's where 5th Age Loki came from.
By Finnish bastard characteristics, no I wasn't trying to imply he was evil from the beginning. More of ornery, selfish, and arrogant bastardism. He got the norse gods in trouble a lot, and he got them out of trouble, true. But he only "saved" things to avoid his own threatened demise, not from the goodness of his heart. However, I do think that he did have friends and allies. He was capable of good deeds, but the tales of his tricks were the ones to survive the legends.
Indeed, the death of Baldr and the snake punishment finally catalyzed ornery bastard to turn into evil bastard out for revenge. Interestingly, he used the Finns to get it. *grin.
Most likely he a human child born on the Finn world. Why, nobody knows. For all we know there is a race of humans that inhabit the Finn realms. *shrug. That he came from such a place would have attributed to the legend of being half-race himself.
I thought about the idea of half-Finn by blood. That one sounds -- awesome, actually -- but more outlandish. And you know me, i'm nothing if not subtle. *grin.
Or there could be a third alternative. That it's neither about being 'human' or 'half-finn' but he's some other race altogether. If there are humans that inhabit the finn realms, they would probably be something not quite like earth humans. Either some sort of twist of the Pattern keeps them connected to the Finns, kind of like a Finnish Aes Sedai-warder bond. Or they were the descendants of all 'earth humans' kept on world to serve as 'emo-food sources', like cattle that became too numerous to stock, so they are allowed to graze freely. We know so little about Finns. . . .
You know how Myrddraal are the throwbacks to the the trolloc's human stock. We know there are 'male' and 'female' Finn, but we don't know whether they live and breed as regular species. Perhaps they are spontaneously born among whatever "human" species inhabits their planet. And such Finn-babies are collected by the rest of their powerful kind. Or vice versa. Every once in a while the Finn race produces a 'throwback' to some original blend which is born as a 'human' child.
I like the idea of having a blood and soul connection to the Finns. But either way, that's where 5th Age Loki came from.
By Finnish bastard characteristics, no I wasn't trying to imply he was evil from the beginning. More of ornery, selfish, and arrogant bastardism. He got the norse gods in trouble a lot, and he got them out of trouble, true. But he only "saved" things to avoid his own threatened demise, not from the goodness of his heart. However, I do think that he did have friends and allies. He was capable of good deeds, but the tales of his tricks were the ones to survive the legends.
Indeed, the death of Baldr and the snake punishment finally catalyzed ornery bastard to turn into evil bastard out for revenge. Interestingly, he used the Finns to get it. *grin.