Liēt and Jammah'a - Revision history

http://talesofkaess.benharper.info/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Li%C4%93t_and_Jammah%27a Liēt and Jammah'a - Revision history 2026-05-18T09:43:01Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.41.0 http://talesofkaess.benharper.info/w/index.php?title=Li%C4%93t_and_Jammah%27a&diff=4568&oldid=prev Ilabrar: /* Revival and Publication */ 2023-02-21T22:14:06Z

<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Revival and Publication</span></span></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 15:14, 21 February 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Revival and Publication ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Revival and Publication ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><i>Liēt and Jammah'a</i> faded into obscurity in the later years of the [[Second Valanthian Epoch]] until it was encountered by the bard [[Ka-Ess Lizardkin]] sometime in the early [[Third Century Valanthe II Naïlo]]. His version of the tale, an oratorio written for the [[The Spinecracker Amphitheater for Contemporary Poetics|Spinecracker Academy Orchestra]], is the first known published version of the poem. Ka-Ess is credited with adding the now-standard frame story, in which an Eagle-Prince, disgusted by the "savage spears and arrows of the featherless," observes the courtship of the two lovers and comes to respect the nobility of the maiden, who "lack'd wings yet she gave herself to the sky." Notably, Ka-Ess' version of the work retains the ambiguity of the conclusion, and whether Liēt is carried away into the clouds or plummets to her death in the waves remains unresolved.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><i>Liēt and Jammah'a</i> faded into obscurity in the later years of the [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Second Century Valanthe II Amastacia|</ins>Second Valanthian Epoch]] until it was encountered by the bard [[Ka-Ess Lizardkin]] sometime in the early [[Third Century Valanthe II Naïlo]]. His version of the tale, an oratorio written for the [[The Spinecracker Amphitheater for Contemporary Poetics|Spinecracker Academy Orchestra]], is the first known published version of the poem. Ka-Ess is credited with adding the now-standard frame story, in which an Eagle-Prince, disgusted by the "savage spears and arrows of the featherless," observes the courtship of the two lovers and comes to respect the nobility of the maiden, who "lack'd wings yet she gave herself to the sky." Notably, Ka-Ess' version of the work retains the ambiguity of the conclusion, and whether Liēt is carried away into the clouds or plummets to her death in the waves remains unresolved.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The meaning of the oratorio's dedication — "<i>For a [[Dagna the Fair|formidable woman]]</i>" — is uncertain.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The meaning of the oratorio's dedication — "<i>For a [[Dagna the Fair|formidable woman]]</i>" — is uncertain.</div></td></tr> </table>

Ilabrar http://talesofkaess.benharper.info/w/index.php?title=Li%C4%93t_and_Jammah%27a&diff=4558&oldid=prev Ilabrar at 22:00, 21 February 2023 2023-02-21T22:00:10Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 15:00, 21 February 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><b><i>Liēt and Jammah'a</i></b> is a romantic epic poem first popularized among sailors in the [[Skaugan Main]] during the [[First Century Valanthe II <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Naïlo</del>]]. The poem, part of a larger oral tradition of Skaugan mariners, recounts the romance between [[Liēt III The Opalescent]] ("Liēt Opal-Eyed"), Imperial Princess of [[Doloriane]], and Jammah'a, a [[djinn]] slave held in magical thrall by Liēt's mother, [[Liēt II The Serene]] ("The Implacable Queen"). The lovers conspire to free Jammah'a from his enchanted bonds and flee to his ancestral Cloud-Manse in the [[Elemental Plane of Air]], but their romance is revealed, scandalizing the elven court and leading to a series of reprisal killings. At the poem's conclusion, Liēt, rather than be forced by her mother into lifelong celibacy as a nun of the [[Abbey of Doloriane]], hurls herself from a rocky crag into the arms of "her lover, the air."</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><b><i>Liēt and Jammah'a</i></b> is a romantic epic poem first popularized among sailors in the [[Skaugan Main]] during the [[First Century Valanthe II <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Amastacia</ins>]]. The poem, part of a larger oral tradition of Skaugan mariners, recounts the romance between [[Liēt III The Opalescent]] ("Liēt Opal-Eyed"), Imperial Princess of [[Doloriane]], and Jammah'a, a [[djinn]] slave held in magical thrall by Liēt's mother, [[Liēt II The Serene]] ("The Implacable Queen"). The lovers conspire to free Jammah'a from his enchanted bonds and flee to his ancestral Cloud-Manse in the [[Elemental Plane of Air]], but their romance is revealed, scandalizing the elven court and leading to a series of reprisal killings. At the poem's conclusion, Liēt, rather than be forced by her mother into lifelong celibacy as a nun of the [[Abbey of Doloriane]], hurls herself from a rocky crag into the arms of "her lover, the air."</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although the court setting and personages are based on historical figures from the [[Second Liētine Epoch]], the poem is a romantic pastiche of [[Elven]] court life and only loosely reflects the actual politics and practices of the time. The sudden death of Liēt III in 481 L.II, purportedly due to illness, created an Imperial succession crisis and gave rise to many folk legends, but no evidence of the alleged affair, or even of a Djinn servant in the Liētine Court, exists in the historical literature.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although the court setting and personages are based on historical figures from the [[Second Liētine Epoch]], the poem is a romantic pastiche of [[Elven]] court life and only loosely reflects the actual politics and practices of the time. The sudden death of Liēt III in 481 L.II, purportedly due to illness, created an Imperial succession crisis and gave rise to many folk legends, but no evidence of the alleged affair, or even of a Djinn servant in the Liētine Court, exists in the historical literature.</div></td></tr> </table>

Ilabrar http://talesofkaess.benharper.info/w/index.php?title=Li%C4%93t_and_Jammah%27a&diff=4518&oldid=prev Ka-ess at 19:28, 2 February 2023 2023-02-02T19:28:23Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 12:28, 2 February 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><b><i>Liēt and Jammah'a</i></b> is a romantic epic poem first popularized among sailors in the [[Skaugan Main]] during the [[First Century Valanthe II Naïlo]]. The poem, part of a larger oral tradition of Skaugan mariners, recounts the romance between [[Liēt III The Opalescent]] ("Liēt Opal-Eyed"), Imperial Princess of [[Doloriane]], and Jammah'a, a [[djinn]] slave held in magical thrall by Liēt's mother, [[Liēt II The Serene]] ("The Implacable Queen"). The lovers conspire to free Jammah'a from his enchanted bonds and flee to his ancestral Cloud-Manse in the [[Elemental Plane of Air]], but their romance is revealed, scandalizing the elven court and leading to a series of reprisal killings. At the poem's conclusion, Liēt, rather than be forced by her mother into lifelong celibacy as a nun of the [[Abbey of Doloriane]], hurls herself from a rocky crag into the arms of "her lover, the air."</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><b><i>Liēt and Jammah'a</i></b> is a romantic epic poem first popularized among sailors in the [[Skaugan Main]] during the [[First Century Valanthe II Naïlo]]. The poem, part of a larger oral tradition of Skaugan mariners, recounts the romance between [[Liēt III The Opalescent]] ("Liēt Opal-Eyed"), Imperial Princess of [[Doloriane]], and Jammah'a, a [[djinn]] slave held in magical thrall by Liēt's mother, [[Liēt II The Serene]] ("The Implacable Queen"). The lovers conspire to free Jammah'a from his enchanted bonds and flee to his ancestral Cloud-Manse in the [[Elemental Plane of Air]], but their romance is revealed, scandalizing the elven court and leading to a series of reprisal killings. At the poem's conclusion, Liēt, rather than be forced by her mother into lifelong celibacy as a nun of the [[Abbey of Doloriane]], hurls herself from a rocky crag into the arms of "her lover, the air."</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although the court setting and personages are based on historical figures from the [[Second Liētine Epoch]], the poem is a romantic pastiche of [[Elven]] court life and only loosely reflects the actual politics and practices of the time. The sudden death of Liēt III in 481 L.II, purportedly due to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sudden </del>illness, created an Imperial succession crisis and gave rise to many folk legends, but no evidence of the alleged affair, or even of a Djinn servant in the Liētine Court, exists in the historical literature.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although the court setting and personages are based on historical figures from the [[Second Liētine Epoch]], the poem is a romantic pastiche of [[Elven]] court life and only loosely reflects the actual politics and practices of the time. The sudden death of Liēt III in 481 L.II, purportedly due to illness, created an Imperial succession crisis and gave rise to many folk legends, but no evidence of the alleged affair, or even of a Djinn servant in the Liētine Court, exists in the historical literature.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Revival and Publication ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Revival and Publication ==</div></td></tr> </table>

Ka-ess http://talesofkaess.benharper.info/w/index.php?title=Li%C4%93t_and_Jammah%27a&diff=4517&oldid=prev Ka-ess: /* Revival and Publication */ 2023-02-02T19:10:39Z

<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Revival and Publication</span></span></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 12:10, 2 February 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Revival and Publication ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Revival and Publication ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><i>Liēt and Jammah'a</i> faded into obscurity in the later years of the [[Second Valanthian Epoch]] until it was encountered by the bard [[Ka-Ess Lizardkin]] sometime in the early [[Third Century Valanthe II Naïlo]]. His version of the tale, an oratorio written for the [[The Spinecracker Amphitheater for Contemporary Poetics|Spinecracker Academy Orchestra]], is the first known <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">written </del>version of the poem. Ka-Ess is credited with adding the now-standard frame story, in which an Eagle-Prince, disgusted by the "savage spears and arrows of the featherless," observes the courtship of the two lovers and comes to respect the nobility of the maiden, who "lack'd wings yet she gave herself to the sky." Notably, Ka-Ess' version of the work retains the ambiguity of the conclusion, and whether Liēt is carried away into the clouds or plummets to her death in the waves remains unresolved.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><i>Liēt and Jammah'a</i> faded into obscurity in the later years of the [[Second Valanthian Epoch]] until it was encountered by the bard [[Ka-Ess Lizardkin]] sometime in the early [[Third Century Valanthe II Naïlo]]. His version of the tale, an oratorio written for the [[The Spinecracker Amphitheater for Contemporary Poetics|Spinecracker Academy Orchestra]], is the first known <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">published </ins>version of the poem. Ka-Ess is credited with adding the now-standard frame story, in which an Eagle-Prince, disgusted by the "savage spears and arrows of the featherless," observes the courtship of the two lovers and comes to respect the nobility of the maiden, who "lack'd wings yet she gave herself to the sky." Notably, Ka-Ess' version of the work retains the ambiguity of the conclusion, and whether Liēt is carried away into the clouds or plummets to her death in the waves remains unresolved.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The meaning of the oratorio's dedication — "<i>For a [[Dagna the Fair|formidable woman]]</i>" — is uncertain.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The meaning of the oratorio's dedication — "<i>For a [[Dagna the Fair|formidable woman]]</i>" — is uncertain.</div></td></tr> </table>

Ka-ess http://talesofkaess.benharper.info/w/index.php?title=Li%C4%93t_and_Jammah%27a&diff=4516&oldid=prev Ka-ess at 18:06, 2 February 2023 2023-02-02T18:06:43Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 11:06, 2 February 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><b><i>Liēt and Jammah'a</i></b> is a romantic epic poem first popularized among sailors in the [[Skaugan Main]] during the [[First Century Valanthe II Naïlo]]. The poem, part of a larger oral tradition of Skaugan mariners, recounts the romance between [[Liēt <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">II </del>The Opalescent]] ("Liēt Opal-Eyed"), Imperial Princess of [[Doloriane]], and Jammah'a, a [[djinn]] slave held in magical thrall by Liēt's mother, [[Liēt <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I </del>The Serene]] ("The Implacable Queen"). The lovers conspire to free Jammah'a from his enchanted bonds and flee to his ancestral Cloud-Manse in the [[Elemental Plane of Air]], but their romance is revealed, scandalizing the elven court and leading to a series of reprisal killings. At the poem's conclusion, Liēt, rather than be forced by her mother into lifelong celibacy as a nun of the [[Abbey of Doloriane]], hurls herself from a rocky crag into the arms of "her lover, the air."</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><b><i>Liēt and Jammah'a</i></b> is a romantic epic poem first popularized among sailors in the [[Skaugan Main]] during the [[First Century Valanthe II Naïlo]]. The poem, part of a larger oral tradition of Skaugan mariners, recounts the romance between [[Liēt <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">III </ins>The Opalescent]] ("Liēt Opal-Eyed"), Imperial Princess of [[Doloriane]], and Jammah'a, a [[djinn]] slave held in magical thrall by Liēt's mother, [[Liēt <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">II </ins>The Serene]] ("The Implacable Queen"). The lovers conspire to free Jammah'a from his enchanted bonds and flee to his ancestral Cloud-Manse in the [[Elemental Plane of Air]], but their romance is revealed, scandalizing the elven court and leading to a series of reprisal killings. At the poem's conclusion, Liēt, rather than be forced by her mother into lifelong celibacy as a nun of the [[Abbey of Doloriane]], hurls herself from a rocky crag into the arms of "her lover, the air."</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although the court setting and personages are based on historical figures from the [[Liētine Epoch]], the poem is a romantic pastiche of [[Elven]] court life and only loosely reflects the actual politics and practices of the time. The sudden death of Liēt III in 481 L.II, purportedly due to sudden illness, created <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a </del>succession crisis <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in the Liētine Court </del>and gave rise to many folk legends, but no evidence of the alleged affair, or even of a Djinn servant in the Liētine Court, exists in the historical literature.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although the court setting and personages are based on historical figures from the [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Second </ins>Liētine Epoch]], the poem is a romantic pastiche of [[Elven]] court life and only loosely reflects the actual politics and practices of the time. The sudden death of Liēt III in 481 L.II, purportedly due to sudden illness, created <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an Imperial </ins>succession crisis and gave rise to many folk legends, but no evidence of the alleged affair, or even of a Djinn servant in the Liētine Court, exists in the historical literature.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Revival and Publication ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Revival and Publication ==</div></td></tr> </table>

Ka-ess http://talesofkaess.benharper.info/w/index.php?title=Li%C4%93t_and_Jammah%27a&diff=4515&oldid=prev Ka-ess at 22:04, 29 January 2023 2023-01-29T22:04:45Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 15:04, 29 January 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l7">Line 7:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 7:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><i>Liēt and Jammah'a</i> faded into obscurity in the later years of the [[Second Valanthian Epoch]] until it was encountered by the bard [[Ka-Ess Lizardkin]] sometime in the early [[Third Century Valanthe II Naïlo]]. His version of the tale, an oratorio written for the [[The Spinecracker Amphitheater for Contemporary Poetics|Spinecracker Academy Orchestra]], is the first known written version of the poem. Ka-Ess is credited with adding the now-standard frame story, in which an Eagle-Prince, disgusted by the "savage spears and arrows of the featherless," observes the courtship of the two lovers and comes to respect the nobility of the maiden, who "lack'd wings yet she gave herself to the sky." Notably, Ka-Ess' version of the work retains the ambiguity of the conclusion, and whether Liēt is carried away into the clouds or plummets to her death in the waves remains unresolved.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><i>Liēt and Jammah'a</i> faded into obscurity in the later years of the [[Second Valanthian Epoch]] until it was encountered by the bard [[Ka-Ess Lizardkin]] sometime in the early [[Third Century Valanthe II Naïlo]]. His version of the tale, an oratorio written for the [[The Spinecracker Amphitheater for Contemporary Poetics|Spinecracker Academy Orchestra]], is the first known written version of the poem. Ka-Ess is credited with adding the now-standard frame story, in which an Eagle-Prince, disgusted by the "savage spears and arrows of the featherless," observes the courtship of the two lovers and comes to respect the nobility of the maiden, who "lack'd wings yet she gave herself to the sky." Notably, Ka-Ess' version of the work retains the ambiguity of the conclusion, and whether Liēt is carried away into the clouds or plummets to her death in the waves remains unresolved.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The meaning of the oratorio's dedication — "<i>For a formidable woman</i>" — is uncertain.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The meaning of the oratorio's dedication — "<i>For a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Dagna the Fair|</ins>formidable woman<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins></i>" — is uncertain.</div></td></tr> </table>

Ka-ess http://talesofkaess.benharper.info/w/index.php?title=Li%C4%93t_and_Jammah%27a&diff=4495&oldid=prev Ka-ess at 03:16, 29 January 2023 2023-01-29T03:16:56Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:16, 28 January 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l7">Line 7:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 7:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><i>Liēt and Jammah'a</i> faded into obscurity in the later years of the [[Second Valanthian Epoch]] until it was encountered by the bard [[Ka-Ess Lizardkin]] sometime in the early [[Third Century Valanthe II Naïlo]]. His version of the tale, an oratorio written for the [[The Spinecracker Amphitheater for Contemporary Poetics|Spinecracker Academy Orchestra]], is the first known written version of the poem. Ka-Ess is credited with adding the now-standard frame story, in which an Eagle-Prince, disgusted by the "savage spears and arrows of the featherless," observes the courtship of the two lovers and comes to respect the nobility of the maiden, who "lack'd wings yet she gave herself to the sky." Notably, Ka-Ess' version of the work retains the ambiguity of the conclusion, and whether Liēt is carried away into the clouds or plummets to her death in the waves remains unresolved.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><i>Liēt and Jammah'a</i> faded into obscurity in the later years of the [[Second Valanthian Epoch]] until it was encountered by the bard [[Ka-Ess Lizardkin]] sometime in the early [[Third Century Valanthe II Naïlo]]. His version of the tale, an oratorio written for the [[The Spinecracker Amphitheater for Contemporary Poetics|Spinecracker Academy Orchestra]], is the first known written version of the poem. Ka-Ess is credited with adding the now-standard frame story, in which an Eagle-Prince, disgusted by the "savage spears and arrows of the featherless," observes the courtship of the two lovers and comes to respect the nobility of the maiden, who "lack'd wings yet she gave herself to the sky." Notably, Ka-Ess' version of the work retains the ambiguity of the conclusion, and whether Liēt is carried away into the clouds or plummets to her death in the waves remains unresolved.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The meaning of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">poem</del>'s dedication — "<i>For a formidable woman</i>" — is uncertain.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The meaning of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">oratorio</ins>'s dedication — "<i>For a formidable woman</i>" — is uncertain.</div></td></tr> </table>

Ka-ess http://talesofkaess.benharper.info/w/index.php?title=Li%C4%93t_and_Jammah%27a&diff=4493&oldid=prev Ka-ess at 03:01, 29 January 2023 2023-01-29T03:01:33Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:01, 28 January 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Revival and Publication ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Revival and Publication ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><i>Liēt and Jammah'a</i> faded into obscurity in the later years of the Second Valanthian Epoch until it was encountered by the bard [[Ka-Ess Lizardkin]] sometime in the early [[Third Century Valanthe II Naïlo]]. His version of the tale, an oratorio written for the [[The Spinecracker Amphitheater for Contemporary Poetics|Spinecracker Academy Orchestra]], is the first known written version of the poem. Ka-Ess is credited with adding the now-standard frame story, in which an Eagle-Prince, disgusted by the "savage spears and arrows of the featherless," observes the courtship of the two lovers and comes to respect the nobility of the maiden, who "lack'd wings yet she gave herself to the sky." Notably, Ka-Ess' version of the work retains the ambiguity of the conclusion, and whether Liēt is carried away into the clouds or plummets to her death in the waves remains unresolved.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><i>Liēt and Jammah'a</i> faded into obscurity in the later years of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Second Valanthian Epoch<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>until it was encountered by the bard [[Ka-Ess Lizardkin]] sometime in the early [[Third Century Valanthe II Naïlo]]. His version of the tale, an oratorio written for the [[The Spinecracker Amphitheater for Contemporary Poetics|Spinecracker Academy Orchestra]], is the first known written version of the poem. Ka-Ess is credited with adding the now-standard frame story, in which an Eagle-Prince, disgusted by the "savage spears and arrows of the featherless," observes the courtship of the two lovers and comes to respect the nobility of the maiden, who "lack'd wings yet she gave herself to the sky." Notably, Ka-Ess' version of the work retains the ambiguity of the conclusion, and whether Liēt is carried away into the clouds or plummets to her death in the waves remains unresolved.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The meaning of the poem's dedication — "<i>For a formidable woman</i>" — is uncertain.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The meaning of the poem's dedication — "<i>For a formidable woman</i>" — is uncertain.</div></td></tr> </table>

Ka-ess http://talesofkaess.benharper.info/w/index.php?title=Li%C4%93t_and_Jammah%27a&diff=4492&oldid=prev Ka-ess at 02:59, 29 January 2023 2023-01-29T02:59:15Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 19:59, 28 January 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Revival and Publication ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Revival and Publication ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><i>Liēt and Jammah'a</i> faded into obscurity in the later years of the Second Valanthian Epoch until it was encountered by the bard [[Ka-Ess Lizardkin]] sometime in the early [[Third Century Valanthe II Naïlo]]. His version of the tale, an oratorio written for the [[The Spinecracker Amphitheater for Contemporary Poetics|Spinecracker Academy Orchestra]], is the first known written version of the poem. Ka-Ess is credited with adding the now-standard frame story, in which an Eagle-Prince, disgusted by the "savage spears and arrows of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Man</del>," observes the courtship of the two lovers and comes to respect the nobility of the maiden, who "lack'd wings yet she gave herself to the sky." Notably, Ka-Ess' version of the work retains the ambiguity of the conclusion, and whether Liēt is carried away into the clouds or plummets to her death in the waves remains unresolved.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><i>Liēt and Jammah'a</i> faded into obscurity in the later years of the Second Valanthian Epoch until it was encountered by the bard [[Ka-Ess Lizardkin]] sometime in the early [[Third Century Valanthe II Naïlo]]. His version of the tale, an oratorio written for the [[The Spinecracker Amphitheater for Contemporary Poetics|Spinecracker Academy Orchestra]], is the first known written version of the poem. Ka-Ess is credited with adding the now-standard frame story, in which an Eagle-Prince, disgusted by the "savage spears and arrows of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the featherless</ins>," observes the courtship of the two lovers and comes to respect the nobility of the maiden, who "lack'd wings yet she gave herself to the sky." Notably, Ka-Ess' version of the work retains the ambiguity of the conclusion, and whether Liēt is carried away into the clouds or plummets to her death in the waves remains unresolved.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The meaning of the poem's dedication — "<i>For a formidable woman</i>" — is uncertain.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The meaning of the poem's dedication — "<i>For a formidable woman</i>" — is uncertain.</div></td></tr> </table>

Ka-ess http://talesofkaess.benharper.info/w/index.php?title=Li%C4%93t_and_Jammah%27a&diff=4491&oldid=prev Ka-ess at 02:57, 29 January 2023 2023-01-29T02:57:23Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 19:57, 28 January 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><b><i>Liēt and Jammah'a</i></b> is a romantic epic poem first popularized among sailors in the [[Skaugan Main]] during the [[First Century Valanthe II Naïlo]]. The poem, part of a larger oral tradition of Skaugan mariners, recounts the romance between [[Liēt II The Opalescent]] ("Liēt Opal-Eyed"), Imperial Princess of [[Doloriane]], and Jammah'a, a [[djinn]] slave held in magical thrall by Liēt's mother, [[Liēt I The Serene]] ("The Implacable Queen"). The lovers conspire to free Jammah'a from his enchanted bonds and flee to his ancestral Cloud-Manse in the [[Elemental Plane of Air]], but their romance is revealed, scandalizing the elven court and leading to a series of reprisal killings. At the poem's conclusion, Liēt, rather than be forced by her mother into lifelong celibacy as a nun of the [[Abbey of Doloriane]], hurls herself from a rocky crag into the arms of "her lover, the air."</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><b><i>Liēt and Jammah'a</i></b> is a romantic epic poem first popularized among sailors in the [[Skaugan Main]] during the [[First Century Valanthe II Naïlo]]. The poem, part of a larger oral tradition of Skaugan mariners, recounts the romance between [[Liēt II The Opalescent]] ("Liēt Opal-Eyed"), Imperial Princess of [[Doloriane]], and Jammah'a, a [[djinn]] slave held in magical thrall by Liēt's mother, [[Liēt I The Serene]] ("The Implacable Queen"). The lovers conspire to free Jammah'a from his enchanted bonds and flee to his ancestral Cloud-Manse in the [[Elemental Plane of Air]], but their romance is revealed, scandalizing the elven court and leading to a series of reprisal killings. At the poem's conclusion, Liēt, rather than be forced by her mother into lifelong celibacy as a nun of the [[Abbey of Doloriane]], hurls herself from a rocky crag into the arms of "her lover, the air."</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although the court setting and personages are based on historical figures from the [[Liētine Epoch]], the poem is a romantic pastiche of [[Elven]] court life and only loosely reflects the actual politics and practices of the time. The sudden death of Liēt III in 481 L.II, purportedly due to sudden illness, created a succession crisis in the Liētine Court<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, giving </del>rise to many folk legends, but no evidence of the alleged affair, or even of a Djinn servant in the Liētine Court, exists in the historical literature.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although the court setting and personages are based on historical figures from the [[Liētine Epoch]], the poem is a romantic pastiche of [[Elven]] court life and only loosely reflects the actual politics and practices of the time. The sudden death of Liēt III in 481 L.II, purportedly due to sudden illness, created a succession crisis in the Liētine Court <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and gave </ins>rise to many folk legends, but no evidence of the alleged affair, or even of a Djinn servant in the Liētine Court, exists in the historical literature.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Revival and Publication ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Revival and Publication ==</div></td></tr> </table>

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