A Chasing After Wind

OMG

The creator of Settles of Catan also create a board game called Barbarossa that was based on the Riddle Master trilogy, my favorite fantasy trilogy.

I need to look this game up.

Patricia McKillip's Riddle-Master Trilogy is my favorite fantasy trilogy. Don't get me wrong: I love The Lord of the Rings. But I found parts of the book to drag terribly. While the Riddle-Master Trilogy has a few confusing, hard-to-read sections, it never got as dull as, say, The Road to Isengard (Nothing happens in that chapter!). And on an emotional level, the McKillip's trilogy spoke to me completely, in a very personal way.

So I will write meta on this trilogy. I I know it is unlikely that anyone will read it or understand it. But this is a public livejournal - who knows who could stumble upon it.

I want to write about Raederle.

( The second most beautiful woman in the three portions of An )

Growing up, I far preferred platonic relationships in stories to romantic relationships, but there were a few romances that I shipped.

When I was fifteen years old and read The Riddle-Master Trilogy by Patricia McKillip, I was taken with Deth and the Morgol's relationship, and thought it was one of the most mature romantic relationships I'd encountered in a book. Later on, I realized that I felt this way because it was a relationship where both parties rarely saw each other. She was ruling her land. He was always traveling in his role as the High One's harpist. It is mature, of course, that they weren't teenagers who wanted to be together 24/7, but still strange to me that one of my favorite romances was one I loved basically because they rarely saw each other. They had duties and roles and those took precedence over their love. Their love for each does, in fact, become very important to the plot, but it is a low-key romance that co-exists with other relationships.

Another romance I liked as a teenager was Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson, from the Spider-Man comics. That was interesting one because Peter was interested in Mary Jane physically from the moment they met, but dismissed her as too shallow to have a relationship. It wasn't until they'd both been through a lot of growing up that they became a couple.