Submitting Your Work on the Immortals

~ Some things to consider: an excerpt from "The Immortals", by Amritam Gweththew and Rowan Windlyric (book available in most libraries of Elanthia)

The Gods - The Thirteen Immortals are a fickle bunch and as unpredictable and mercurial as the lands and the form of Elanthia itself. Each Immortal has several aspects and forms, some benevolent, some wrathful, mischievous or disruptive, but in all their positive traits predominate.

Some believers consider the positive and negative aspects of the gods and goddesses to belong to them, that they are just different names for referring to certain "moods" of the same deities. Others contend that these are indeed separate, minor deities, who serve the Immortals and do that portion of their bidding that serves mortals in manner fair or foul. Be that as it may, there is no doubt that across Elanthia, shrines to the major manifestations of the Thirteen Immortals exist, as well as shrines to their aspects or demiurges.

The aspects can be either male, female or animal, regardless of the form of the master Immortal. The Immortals that are either male or female, and the demiurges, possess certain auspicious or foreboding animals associated with them, as emblems or totems. The races of Elanthia, as prone as they are to foreshadows and prognostication, and augurs, observe these correspondences with great attention.

When mortals or semi-mortals offend a particular god, they are sure to incur the ire of the negative aspect. Attempts to please the gods may bring out the positive aspects, but there is no guarantee. Each Immortal is lord over particular spiritual, natural, magical and astrological domains, for example each Lord has his/her own corresponding planet.

Request for Submissions - Once again, in each new publication of the Waerd Aev, we plan to highlight for you one of the Immortals, these mystical beings who influence us all. We hope to help them become as familiar as the woman who lives next door or the blind minstrel wandering Crossings's streets.

It is our earnest desire that you, our public, will help us in this endeavor by contributing your own prayers, tales, thoughts, histories of each of the Immortals as we present them. We will publish in the Immortals section the works that together show the fullest picture of the god or goddess, and any other submissions not so used will be considered for publication in other parts of Waerd Aev.

Our next issue's Immortal will be Glythtide, gentle Saemaus, and the crazy one, Be'ort. Please submit your work to Waerd Aev by our deadline date of (October 31, 2002). Textual work should be in plain .txt (i.e., Notepad) or .doc (i.e., Word) format. Art must be in .gif or .jpg format. All submissions, text or artwork, MUST include the following information to allow us to properly credit and compensate for work that is published:

 

Play.Net Account Name:

Character Name for Compensation:

Name to Use for Author of Article: (if different from character name)

Email Address:

Dragonrealms-related Website: (if you have one you would like us to link to or for readers to gain more information)