Who is Chiktika FastPawn?

Csadar · Post by **Csadar** » Sat Oct 13, 2001 9:58 am

From his name I'd say he's pretty fast but who is he? Does any1 know?

Raidri · Post by **Raidri** » Sat Oct 13, 2001 10:13 am

I think he/she is the animal companion of the gnomish god Baerwan Wildwanderer.

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Sat Oct 13, 2001 11:33 am

Japanese chess piece (j/k)

Quitch · Post by **Quitch** » Sat Oct 13, 2001 2:11 pm

I think he/she is the animal companion of the gnomish god Baerwan Wildwanderer

That's correct.

It's Fastpaws by the way

UserUnfriendly · Post by **UserUnfriendly** » Sat Oct 13, 2001 3:19 pm

Also, by aerie's description of his tales as told by quayle, the racoon char is like brier rabbit in our world, with many funny and adventurous and humerous stories. for those unfamiliar with brier rabbit, read watership down.

Saigo · Post by **Saigo** » Sat Oct 13, 2001 9:19 pm

Originally posted by UserUnfriendly:
for those unfamiliar with brier rabbit, read watership down.

Funny! For Bre'er Rabbit stories, read The Song of the South. Those of you in the UK can see the movie.

Americans will probably never see it again.

UserUnfriendly · Post by **UserUnfriendly** » Sat Oct 13, 2001 10:53 pm

"song of the south" was banned by the motion picture association of america for various stereo typing of african american culture. I doubt it will ever be released or even shown outside of the archives.

yeah, I know brier rabbit was a archetypical figure of black culture back in the south during the sharecropper days. See Jung for explaination of archetypes.

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Oct 13, 2001 11:02 pm

Originally posted by UserUnfriendly:
"song of the south" was banned by the motion picture association of america for various stereo typing of african american culture. I doubt it will ever be released or even shown outside of the archives.

yeah, I know brier rabbit was a archetypical figure of black culture back in the south during the sharecropper days. See Jung for explaination of archetypes.

Interestingly enough, the collection of stories that featured Brer Rabbit was created by a white Southener, writing under a pseudonym. In any case, these anthropomorphic fables are pretty common in many cultures, from Aesop to Renard the Fox.

Xyx · Post by **Xyx** » Sun Oct 14, 2001 12:56 am

"Anthropomorphic" is where individuals represent an entire group of people, I believe. Not sure if this can be said of Reynard the Fox...

Silvanerian · Post by **Silvanerian** » Sun Oct 14, 2001 4:35 am

"Anthropomorph" means giving human charateristics to something non-human.

-Silvanerian

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Mon Oct 15, 2001 6:27 am

Well there was a Mr Sleep fast paws but that is a long story

Saigo · Post by **Saigo** » Mon Oct 15, 2001 7:43 am

Originally posted by Mr Sleep:
Well there was a Mr Sleep fast paws but that is a long story

Definitely an animal story!

A fuzzy little skunk, IIRC.

BTW, I did manage to get a Brittish copy of Song of the South that I need to get converted from PAL to NTSC. I haven't tried real hard, yet, but I'm happy just to have it -- I know it won't be lost for good.

[ 10-15-2001: Message edited by: Saigo ]