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Damn. I just found this. I was thinking about entering something this year. It's been a while.. Maybe next year.

I want to officially put Danen on Hiatus. The site will be going into Wrapstuff so work can be done on it. People of late have not been posting, not even the people that have been with me since the beginning in 2003. I hope all of the people on the site will come back and play when I open her up again. It will be starting fresh, in the future about One Year (storyline time that is). In the Rainforest especially there will be major changes and I hope my main players will join me in this...
I will also be making it so people can sign up as reader members or players, there will be monthly challenges and themes and a yearly calender. I have put a lot of time and tears into this site. I love it almost as much as Elfquest and only want to make it better. Thank you.   With Love   
                                 ~Highone/Elftanner

I want to welcome all of my new players! Plus invite new ones. We are still active and excepting. We have 4 tribes excepting player created elves; Floating peak - Mountain elves, Frost Bite Lake - Snow elves, Moon Canyon - Savannah elves, and Draco Hall - Dragon bonding elves. Please feel free to check us out and ask questions.

Honorary elf of the month - This is Tale- The chief of the Deep Dwellers while Tynami was away. Will he stay chief now that she is back? Or will he step aside and let his sister take the mantel?



He doesn't have a CIS at the moment and I will let who ever adopts him create it. All I ask is that he is patient, a good leader and a story teller (hence the name). When his sister (half sister Tynami) left the tribe he took his place as chief not sure where she had gone or if she would come back. Who ever adopts him will get an email from me on the family tree between him and Tynami.

wow, I can't believe my theme suggestion is leading... Good thing I did an entry for that one too. lol

Wow, firsts and lasts inspired me so much I already drew a picture and inked it in. I also drew one for the theme I suggested and now I have an idea for the Contrasts theme and the Choices theme. Yikes!

If I had to choose from one of these I would choose -

Firsts and Lasts: Births and deaths, new ideas and discoveries, goodbyes and hellos, destruction and creation - there is much drama to be found in Beginnings and Endings.

I already have a great idea for it too. Otherwise I want to add another idea for the choosing if that's cool.

Hidden Moments - Scenes never seen

God I wish I could get a map like that made for Danen. Pheonyx was going to make me one but I haven't heard from her in so long. I hope she's ok.

This weeks featured elf is Sheen, the healer of the Lion Guard.

Character Name:Sheen


Age: 450                                                     
Sex: Male                                           
Soulname:                                               
Position in tribe:  Lion Guard                                     
Secondary Positio:  Healer                               

Hair: black and mid back in length. Two braids on each side of his face and loose in the back.
Eyes:  silver
Skin tone: dark tan
Magical abilities: Healing
Marks/Scars:  three dark lines under each eye
Weapons: sword and a sling shot

Special Possessions:

Family Relations: Distant relation to Xyll
Mother: ?
Father: ?
Sibling (If any):

Bond/love - mate: none
Children:

Garments and Accessories: Long red vest with embroidered short sleeves and blue/black trim and belt. Slate colored tall boots; multi colored, stripped, billowy pants tucked into the tops of the boots. Tan wrap around his head. A silver star pendant, and braided wrist guards with silver bands.

Abilities and Skills:
Acrobatics
Animal bonding: Lion
Barter/Trade
Carving - Stone
Cord/Rope making
Climbing - Rock or Tree
Combat
Direction Sense
First Aid - Elf and Animal
Healing - Herbal
Hunting
Hiding/Stealth
Running
Riding: lion
Repair: weapon
Self defense
Scouting
Stargazing

Bond Animal:
Name: Loper
Type of animal: female lion
Age: 3
Sex - Female
Personality: She loves to run and roll onto your feet
Story of bonding:

History and Personality of your Elf: Sheen is very personable. He is friendly and intelligent. He is quick to fallow orders and is never getting into trouble as he thinks before acting, always.

I haven't been able to get a hold of two of my players because of either no email adres or I can't get to my email because of computer problems. I am looking for someone by the name of Cheshirekatt and someone y the name of Huntinghorn. They were players on my Danen site, but the site was shut down without warning or reason and now I can't get a hold of them. If anyone knows who I am talking about please let them know I have a new site for Danen. I don't have the link on me, but they can find it on the Scroll of Colors in my signature. the link has been fixed to lead to the new site. Thanks for any help.
                         ~Elftanner

The featured of of today is..

Character Name: Longfang

Tribe: originally of the Crescent caves
Age: 500                                                     
Sex:  Female                                           
Soulname:                                               
Position in tribe: Nurse/herbal healing                                     
Secondary Position:                                 

Hair: red orange and curly, kept lose, under a hat.
Eyes: Only one, red
Skin tone: tan
Magical abilities (If Any): shape changing
Marks/Scars: a birthmark on her right shoulder
Weapons: spear

Special Possessions: a gold necklace that her Bond Mate used to wear. and a doll her daughter used to play with that she keeps in her pack.

Family Relations
Mother: Flax
Father: ?

Brother: Dusk (D)
Brother: Damphand

Bondmate: Longtail (D)
Daughter: Gem (D)

Garments and Accessories: A blue green hat and a black one piece jumpsuit with cut outs at the waist, thighs and shoulder connected with buckles. A gold snake band on her right wrist. A gold circlet necklace, straps of leather looped through her ears as earrings and an eye patch over her right eye.

Abilities and Skills:
Acrobatics
Animal bonding
Carving - *Wood* or Stone
Cord/Rope making
Climbing - Rock or *Tree*
*First Aid* - *Elf* or Animal
Fishing
*Healing - Herbal*
Self defense
*Shape Shifting or Changing*
Weather Watcher

History and Personality of your Elf:
When her daughter was only 6 turns they were ambushed in the forest by humans. Her Bond Mate and daughter were killed, and she was left for dead. Her tribe found them after a weak sending from her and she was healed, but her eye couldn't be saved. She was born with silver eyes, but after the attack, she changed her one eye to red in anger and mourning, and later kept it that way as a reminder of her hatred of humans.

She used to be so easy going, loving, and sweet natured, She was called Carefree, but after the deaths, she became withdrawn and quick to anger. Snapping at everyone, the others started calling her Longfang. Her temper has mellowed over time, but when she gets around humans she goes into a rage. Out of despair for her lost family she could not stay in her rainforest home, and she decided to leave. Her brother Damphand followed her, to keep her safe. They headed west toward the great waters and found Icarus at the edge of the forest.

She agreed to let him travel with them, so long as he did all of the dealings with humans. When they crossed the mountain pass and into the human territories she was terrified. Not only could she not stand humans, these humans were so different from the ones she was used to. They wore clothes, lived in homes made of wood and stone! She kept her temper in check as Icarus got them passage across the Great Waters at Demon Passage.

History of Danen

The elves originated in the world of Magic. A separate dimension from the three mooned world of the humans. In time, much to the chagrin of the elders, the Magic started to die. The elders couldn't figure out why it was dieing or how to restore it and they had to make plans of escape, for if they were caught in the Magic when it died, being a magical race they would die too . The elders took what they could of the Magic and put it into crystals taken from the Royal's palace walls and opened the door to the dimension of the humans emerging into a valley deep in the mountains. These Elves, using the Magic of the crystals to supplement their own magic shaped the rocks of the mountains into a temporary home for themselves and named it Landing. Deciding there had to be a better place to live they sent groups of elves, designated the Honored Ones, out into the world to interact with the humans and find a better place to live. Again, using the Magic, they picked different parts of the world and sent the Honored Ones there.

Each group was designated a different terrain and area of the globe to study and learn about, with everything they would need including Honored Ones with abilities suited for that particular terrain, A Rock shaper or tree shaper, a Healer, an astronomer to lead the way and a history keeper to keep records of their travels...

The largest group stayed at Landing to wait for information from the others. One went to the Savannah to learn about the land and it's inhabitants; one to the woodlands to learn of it's trees and seasons; one to the ocean to live on the beaches and learn about the waters of this world; a couple of different groups went to two different mountain ranges thinking they would find a large enough place to house all of the elves; one group to the plains to learn of the animals inhabiting the tall grasses and open places; One to the frozen realm to see if it was possible to live in the frigged snows; one group to the Jungle to learn of it's plants and layers; and one group was to be travelers, traveling between all of the tribes and delivering news and information to each other and Landing. All elves on this world are full blooded and immortal, with exception to a choice few in the Woodlands and Plains. (But that's another story.)

Through time, some tribes disappeared due to humans or dangerous living situations and the Travelers eventually lost track of them all, and eventually ,through generations, forgot their duties. All tribes came to believe the "other tribes" were just stories told by their Honored Ones. The traveling elves still traveled the world of Danen but split into two groups. One was called the Star people, all of which disappeared leaving no real trace of themselves. The others learned to live amongst the humans as a group of gypsies and tinkers, living from human town to town, and putting on acts for the gullible humans, who on this world were easy to get along with but not all excepting.

This is my world, I hope you like it. There are many tribes with different ways of life to chose from. Maybe someday they will all be reunited again?

If any of these tribes sound interesting feel free to visit my site. We have plenty of tribes and elves to be adopted. Every so often I will highlight an elf of the week here that is up for adoption so check back.

Thank you multimedia. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

                  Three's a Crowd continued

After that day Cutter could swear he felt Skywise nearby. He tried to ignore the feeling; Skywise was back at the holt. Or was he?

?Skywise would fallow me like that. He doesn?t trust me to do anything right.?

He put the thoughts out of his mind best he could so he could focus on his travels. He and Nightfall ran side by side every night without incident until one night they finally came upon tracks.

?Look Cutter, tracks. Finally tracks. Do you think we are close??

Nightfall jumped off of Woodshaver and knelt down to take a closer look. Cutter shook his head.

?Those are old. The frozen ground kept them in place. But we now know we are going in the right direction.?

He turned to mount Nightrunner again when he noticed his wolf friend?s ears were up and he was sniffing the air. Cutter motioned for Nightfall to be quiet. She mounted her wolf friend slowly, ready to run if she needed to. Cutter sniffed the air, faintly he smelled ?

?Skywise. I knew it.?

Cutter became red in the face. Nightfall asked what was wrong.

**That good for nothing stargazer is fallowing us. I thought I caught his scent a few days back but didn?t see him. Now Nightrunner can smell him too. He?s here somewhere.**

Cutter looked around, squinting into the darkness. He still couldn?t see him. He decided to let Skywise think he wasn?t caught.

**Lets let him think he isn?t caught. I want to surprise him when he isn?t paying attention. So don?t let on that we know he?s here.**

Nightfall agreed. It upset her that Skywise would fallow them like that, but she trusted Cutter to know what he was doing. If it were up to her she would call him out right now and confront him. Cutter mounted Nightrunner and urged him forward.
They fallowed the tracks until the trees became sparse, and the ground started to become soft. Nearly a full moon had gone by since they left home. Now that Cutter knew he was there he caught Skywise's scent more often. On the last day before they headed out into the marshes they spotted dear. Great black necks. The deer were thin from not eating enough, but were a sight to the elves that had not eaten a decent meal in a long while. Cutter and Nightfall let their wolves take down a small one so they could eat and have some strength for the big hunt the next day, and when finally, they were climbing into their tree to rest before they headed out into the open, he told Nightfall his plan.

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Skywise thought he had been caught, again, but to his surprise Cutter just turned around and mounted Nightrunner. When he and Nightfall started off Skywise thought to himself,

?Boy Cutter, I?m glad you don?t trust your nose.?

Thinking he had gotten away with it again he waited in the tree for a bit then climbed down to fallow the young hunters.

When the trees started to become thinner he found he had to stay farther back so as to not be noticed. On the last day before they entered the open marshes Nightfall, Cutter and their wolf friends rested most of the day after taking down a small deer for food. Skywise?s belly growled at the sight of all that meat walking around out there. It took a lot of will power to keep Starjumper from going after it. It was hard to explain to the wolf that they were hiding from their friends. The wolf just wanted to eat. When he finally got the wolf to understand, for the most part, Skywise found a tree that was just within sight of them and planted his rump in its branches.

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As the sun rose higher Skywise let himself fall into an uncomfortable sleep. Cutter and Nightfall tracked down the tree he slept in and when they found it, they crept up to it. Cutter had to send to Starjumper to be quiet. It took some doing but he got the wolf to let him come close without pouncing on him. When they were sure Skywise was asleep, they both slowly climbed into the tree and right up next to him. It was all Cutter could do to keep from just pushing the stargazer out of the tree. He was so mad to see him here. Nightfall was stiffeling a giggle as Cutter razed a piece of grass to Skywise?s nose.

Skywise nearly fell out of the tree as something tickled his nose and he jumped. He squealed as he caught himself, then he realized he wasn?t alone. He slowly turned to see Nightfall and Cutter standing over him in the tree. All he could do was smile at them.

?Now Cutter. Don?t be mad, I only fallowed you to??

Cutter punched him in the face. Skywise fell out of the tree and landed with a thump on the hard ground. Nightfall caught her breath, but she didn?t feel to bad for Skywise. She was pretty mad herself.
Cutter jumped out of the tree and onto Skywise fists flailing. He was so mad he couldn?t speak.

**You have no right to be here!! This is our hunt not yours!**

Skywise tried to get Cutter off of him. The young elf?s rage surprised him. Finally Nightfall was there pulling Cutter off.

?Stop it Cutter! That?s enough!?

Cutter struggled only a little as Nightfall pulled him off of Skywise. Skywise dragged himself back a little and looked at Cutter.

**I was? I didn?t mean to?**

Nightfall was still holding Cutter when she spoke to Skywise.

?What are you doing here Skywise? This hunt was not meant for you.?

Skywise pulled himself up and leaned against Starjumper. He could see anger in Nightfall?s eyes too. He didn?t mean to make his friends so mad. He looked at his feet as he spoke.

?I? I just wanted to keep an eye on you two. It?s? well? It?s a hard journey and I wasn?t sure Cutter could make it without me??

With that Cutter started to shake but Nightfall held her ground and held him firm.

?This journey was to prove we could both do this on our own. You had yours and Cutter didn?t interfere, why would you do that to him? Or to me? Do you not trust us enough to let us, let Cutter, make his own mistakes if he was to make them??

Nightfall stood there with her hand on Cutter?s chest, not letting him attack the silver haired elf again. Skywise shook his head.

?I wasn?t going to interfere, just watch. I didn?t want anyone to get hurt. This time of year is dangerous for the elders who know what they are doing, let alone those who have never done this. I was just going to watch.?

?If Bearclaw can trust Cutter and me enough to send us out here on our own, you should have been able to. Bearclaw has more to lose in Cutter then you do.?

With that she let her hand fall from Cutter?s chest. He was still shaking, though not as badly. Skywise and Cutter were looking into each others eyes with a knowing look. Sharing something only they knew, and Nightfall wouldn?t understand. A season or two ago, they had shared a part of themselves with each other that they didn?t mean to share. In the midst of another fight. Cutter let his fists relax. He knew now why the stargazer had fallowed, but he was still mad at him. He walked over to Skywise and put his hand on his shoulder.

**Soulbrother, I want you to go home. Leave now and I will forgive you. This is my hunt, not yours, I need to learn to do this on my own.**

With that Cutter mounted Nightrunner and headed back to the tree he and Nightfall were sharing. He hoped he had made himself clear to his friend. He didn?t always need him. Nightfall watched as Cutter had silent words with Skywise. She knew not of what they shared, but she could see the connection between them. She was relieved to see Cutter just turn around and leave without anymore confrontation, but was saddened by the look on Skywises face as Cutter left. Skywise climbed up onto Starjumper and started to leave.

?Wait, Skywise, here.?

Nightfall pulled out some leftover meat from a pouch on her hip. It wasn?t a lot, but it would put food in his belly.

?We will have plenty more tomorrow. Safe journey home.?

Skywise took the meat gladly, then turned and headed home.

Nightfall walked back to her tree and climbed up to sit next to Cutter. He had fallen asleep already, so she made herself comfortable. She didn?t fall asleep right away, instead she thought of Redmark. He had trained her in the ways of tracking and taught her the ways of love. She was a young elf, he is much older then her, but she found herself drawn to his gentile ways. She thought it was sweet how he avoided death, preferring to work on his sleeping magic talent of stirring the life in plants.

?He will be a great tree shaper someday.?

She thought to herself with a smile. She looked at her sleeping friend. She and Cutter had played at love as well. Him being a young elf and new to it all, he wasn?t as gentile as Redmark. He had a rougher edge about him. They were good friends, and she found herself vowing to always be loyal to him, to trust in his judgment and to lead him in the right direction when he needed it. She liked that she was able to do this hunt with him. He would be the next chief and this is a big step toward that goal. She put her head on his shoulder and fell to sleep. Tonight would be a big night.

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