There is only one way to make EldarGal cry out in joy!

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Look what just popped up on Facebook!


Gav Thorpe (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gav-Thorpe/24145188387?ref=stream)
Now it's time to start on Howl of the Banshee, a new Eldar audio.


I wonder if this will be a follow-on to the "Path of" series??

[eldargal]

:eek:

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

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See hun? Facebook has amazing benefits. :p

More info as I get it.

[Psychosplodge]

oh dear. with a response like that you'll probably be underwhelmed.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Nope. :p

[eldargal]

I wonder if he will be doing the 'male in a female Aspect' story he wanted to do.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I've just asked him about it. :)

[Psychosplodge]

Could be. I want ADB navigator house Romeo and Juliet re-write.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Lol!

I think Septimus and Octavia are long dead bro.

[Defenestratus]

Cross-dressing Eldar party novel?

[eldargal]

It's actually a rather nifty idea, but from memory he was concerned the genderbending may be too much for the readers. Basically the Aspect is female, so when a Banshee adopts their war mask, they become female. So all Banshees are female while they are on the battlefield, regardless of what silly old genetics has to say.

[Psychosplodge]

I think Septimus and Octavia are long dead bro.

Septimus wasn't a navigator, and the powers that be didn't go for his pitch.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

It's actually a rather nifty idea, but from memory he was concerned the genderbending may be too much for the readers. Basically the Aspect is female, so when a Banshee adopts their war mask, they become female. So all Banshees are female while they are on the battlefield, regardless of what silly old genetics has to say.

Gav is good at replying, so I'll get something off of him soon. :)


Septimus wasn't a navigator, and the powers that be didn't go for his pitch.

No, Octavia was though.

[Psychosplodge]

Yeah but to do Romeo and Juliet between two warring navigator houses you need two navigators...

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

No one really knows that much about the Navis Nobilite. It would be a cool, if not cliche'd, story.

[MaltonNecromancer]

from memory he was concerned the genderbending may be too much for the readers.

Because Grey Knight skinning Soroitas and bathing in their blood is perfectly okay, but a character that could possibly be read as not even transgenderm, but only a metaphor for it isn't? Horrible misogynist violence good, but "Eek! Lady parts! No!!!"?

*facepalm*

Some days I am so disappointed in my chosen hobby.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

What?

I think you got the context horribly wrong there Malton...

[Defenestratus]

Because Grey Knight skinning Soroitas and bathing in their blood is perfectly okay, but a character that could possibly be read as not even transgenderm, but only a metaphor for it isn't? Horrible misogynist violence good, but "Eek! Lady parts! No!!!"?

*facepalm*

Some days I am so disappointed in my chosen hobby.

Well, I can't say that I'd necessarily be *interested* in it but I don't have a problem on the face of it. I read BL books for enjoyment, not to explore the innards of gender philosophy.

That being said, after the travesty of the Emperors' Children/Fulgrim chapter in "The Primarchs" - there really isn't any ground that BL can say that they're too afraid of crossing.

I still can't believe I read that in a BL novel.

[Mr.Pickelz]

Has BL ever done anything like "The Laughing Path" or something involving the Harlequin's background? I think that would be a most interesting read, considering they work with both dark and "light" sided Eldar. Not to mention imperials.

[Havik110]

really would like to read more on the scorpion that had been an incubi...would be awesome to see him on his way down the path to becoming an Autarch...even seeing him fight and get stronger from people's pain...
:)

his next path is banshee...

[Ulthwé Guardian]

Look what just popped up on Facebook!



I wonder if this will be a follow-on to the "Path of" series??

Does anyone have a link to this comment or post on Facebook?

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Just click where it says Gav Thorpe?

[Ulthwé Guardian]

Cool and thanks :-)

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I got a reply!


Gav Thorpe


Hi, thanks for getting in touch Dale.
I did toy around with the idea of having a main character as a male Banshee for Path of the Warrior, but not this time around - it will be an all-female cast. It's a one-off story not related to the Path series, with the characters hailing from Biel-tan rather than Alaitoc.
Cheers,
Gav

[eldargal]

*squee* Even better! As interesting as the male Banshee story would be, all girls is much better.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I'll take that kiss now. :p

[eldargal]

Get in line behind Phil Kelly, Jes Goodwin and Gav Thorpe.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Not if I stick 'em first!

[eldargal]

Then your name would be struck from the list entirely.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

your*

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[Kirsten]

all girls is much better.


preaching to the choir...

[Psychosplodge]

Certainly better to watch...

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Giggety.

[Ulthwé Guardian]

Hi, thanks for getting in touch Dale.
I did toy around with the idea of having a main character as a male Banshee for Path of the Warrior, but not this time around - it will be an all-female cast. It's a one-off story not related to the Path series, with the characters hailing from Biel-tan rather than Alaitoc.
Cheers,
Gav


Excellent, this should be good to listen to when it's released!

[eldargal]

preaching to the choir...

:p Glad someone got it, TDA missed it completely.

[Xenith]

So. The Howl of the Banshee.

Soon to be followed by:

The Fire of the Dragon
The Swoop of the Hawks
The Strike of the Scorpion

The...Dire of the Avenger?

[eldargal]

Given that only one of those, Howl of the Banshee, is an actual mythological thing, no.

[Wildeybeast]

Dragon fire isn't an 'actual mythological thing'? :confused:

[Defenestratus]

Shine of the spear and warp of the spider are my favorites.

[eldargal]

Well dragons do breath fire but it's really just something they do, the Banshees howl is integral to their mythos. It's all they do, it's how they kill. Otherwise they are harmless ghosts.

[Wildeybeast]

That's an arbitrary distinction. By the same logic I can say howling is just something banshees do. they are just ghosts who make a lot of noise. A Dragon's fire breathing is pretty integral to their mythos. Otherwise they are just big lizards with wings.

[eldargal]

'cept dragons have claws and teeth to kill with and not all of them breath fire.:p

[Wildeybeast]

The proper ones do. Otherwise it's just a big lizard with wings. Ghosts can make the area really cold and give people pneumonia or simply appear at the end of a bed and scare the s@$t out of people. :)

[eldargal]

The point is the Howl of the Banshee is an established phrase in mythology and Gave Thorpe is just using it as a simple title that communicates quite simply who the protagonists are. The ohers, apart from Fire of the Dragon, are just silly and presumably an attempt to make the title look unoriginal or silly or something.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwh I like Fire Dragons...

[Wildeybeast]

The point is the Howl of the Banshee is an established phrase in mythology and Gave Thorpe is just using it as a simple title that communicates quite simply who the protagonists are. The ohers, apart from Fire of the Dragon, are just silly and presumably an attempt to make the title look unoriginal or silly or something.

I know, just poking fun because I'm stuck at home getting cabin fever with a crippled ankle. Fire of the Dragon sort of works, but you could word it a lot better. Dragonfire or Breath of the Dragon or something like that.

[Psychosplodge]

You've got another one, on the plus side you get to spend the day on here rather than with the spawn of others...

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I know, just poking fun because I'm stuck at home getting cabin fever with a crippled ankle. Fire of the Dragon sort of works, but you could word it a lot better. Dragonfire or Breath of the Dragon or something like that.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwh bro! Join a game with me! :D

[Asymmetrical Xeno]

It's nice that Eldar seem to be slowly getting more attention within Black library of late - so this news seems like a nice way to test the waters of if Eldar can do well in audio format, and I'm sure it will. Hope they get some of my favourite female voice actors like Beth Chalmers and Lisa Bowerman.

If this audio does well, I'd like to see the Tau and Necrons get some love. Hell, if they do Necrons - they can hire me to do all the voice processing, as I am an expert in making death-robot voice effects, it's kinda my thing yo.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

O rly?

[Asymmetrical Xeno]

O rly?

R'lyeh! http://soundcloud.com/chrisctan/concrete-oxide-engineering

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I like that! Did you do it?

[Bigred]

Eldargal said:


I wonder if he will be doing the 'male in a female Aspect' story he wanted to do.

Great, now I can't shake the image of RuPaul as Jain Zar ... thanks lady :)

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

-_- Oh Red. :p

[Gotthammer]

For fun times with ebooks, use a wordfilter program and replace every instance of the word "Emperor" with RuPaul - makes the Heresy waaaaaaaay more interesting.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Gott, wat r u doin? Gott, stahp!!!

[Kirsten]

I don't know who this person is

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RuPaul

[Kirsten]

of course... Red is clearly into some weird things :P
has he been seen in the same room as this RuPaul person?

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I... don't.... know... O_O

[Psychosplodge]

It's almost like that bloke from the fifth element was real :eek:

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Psycho, protect me!

[Psychosplodge]

Here take this
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4jm47uRBl1rvvk77o1_1280.png

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

NO!

Please no.

[Psychosplodge]

:confused: