It's not the magic Finn needs to make the difference, it's the fact that he was raised among elves and Iylaine was raised among men. The idea was that they would both grow up and then go back to their native people, but each with a new understanding of the other people.

This isn't a prophecy like The Magical Boy must complete a quest and go to the Gate of X with the Artifact of Y and cast the spell of Z to reveal the ancient treasure. It is just the Bright Lady telling them, "OK this is what you have to do if you don't want your race to be wiped out." That's why they gave a baby elf to the men a hundred years ago, so that they could legitimately come back and "borrow" her descendant, and so that he would have enough elfiness to live comfortably with them.

I wouldn't write off Finn's magical abilities yet, either, just because he doesn't know he has them. Don't forget his father seems to be part-fairy.

Mr. Rogers would say there's something special about everyone.

There is something special about Wulf: He's a cute kid.

But I often have trouble separating his personality from that of Gils. They're like Rosecrantz and Guildenstern.

EDIT: And as an aside, I actually used to live in Mr. Roger's neighborhood on Fifth Ave. in Pittsburgh. There's a statue of him as a t-rex there today.

You have said the greatest fear I have for Gils. I kind of got the impression that Dru was the one who molested Lar that might be the ugly truth. The ugly truth for Gils is that Lar killed his mama. Lothere would everything be different if Lar didn't kill Sela or if Lili didn' diet? As we're getting a look into Lar's character I don't think he intended to kill her it just happened accidentally.

I know, I'm surprised at myself for thinking that but it does seem reasonable now. I don't think he ever ment to kill her, it just happened. This is my scenario:

Lar and his boys enter Lady Sela's cottage; they try to persuade her to take the boys and leave with them.
But Sela knowing that her children would have a safer and happy life living with the men refused. Lar probably tried to take one of the boys my bet is Gils. And Sela tried to grab him back then she and Lar began to fight. And he loses his temper and accidentally uses his magic to suffocate Sela....

It still is so hard to beleive that Lady Sela such a gentle creature was murdered.

I didn't say it was an accident, mind. And this was five-years-ago Lar, not the kinder, gentler Lar of today.

But either way, you can be sure that if Sela was conscious at any point in the proceedings, she would have been putting up some sort of resistance. Even if Lar "accidentally" killed her, it didn't happen while he was helping her with her coat or something.

Simply because she was in the way. And didn't the elves like her? Because Imin told his son to never forgive the death of "Sela the poet" So. We're no the only ones unhappy with Lar...
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I knew it !!!! YES! But.... when did he start on the raping spree? Before or after her death?! He could have loved her and snapped when his best friend killed his one true love!! Urg. But I don't want to like Imin. *WHINE*

EDIT: Lothere, did you ever think of resurrecting sims, in a story like context? And why is Imin still alive, do you have any big plans for him? *hates Imin*
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After she went to live with Egelric , Gils was born in 1079.

Twisted, I did do that already with Matilda. And I resurrected the Sim of Maud. Unless you had something else in mind. Like flashback chapters or something. I really don't want to do flashback chapters, it seems like a kind of lame plot device, or at least hard to do well. An entire prequel story, then maybe. But I don't have enough time to keep this one advancing as it is, so maybe we had better pretend I didn't mention that.

Dasi = Dartesas. The elven nick-naming scheme is a bit complicated.

Devin, Imin and Lar have never been friends like in terms of hanging out together. Imin is quite a bit older. There is practically the same difference in age between Lar and Imin as there is between Lar and Imin's eldest daughter. And Lar has never been one to spend his weekend afternoons hanging out with girls and listening to poetry, so they wouldn't have had much in common.

How can you not love Imin? It's perfectly acceptable to detest him at the same time. He is just so creepily sexy and bitter and angry and sad. He is Alred if everything beautiful had been burned out of Alred's life from day one, and Matilda had scorned him, and most of his friends had been slaughtered (which a good many were at Hastings, but anyway), and etc.

I don't know how many raping "sprees" he has been on. The one real "spree" we know of was when Lar sent his elves out to rape women in retaliation for a man having taken an elf. That was definitely a bit of deliberate spree-making. This was before Sela was killed, but after she had gone to live with Egelric. So make of that what you will.

Otherwise it has been mostly single incidents where it was not about sex at all, but some twisted manipulative/vengeful game he and/or Lar were playing -- with Paul, with the men in general, or with each other.

I don't know what they did before we started following their story. Rape has always been a weapon of war. They just weren't raping women, since there weren't any in the valley then.