Pulling info from the
Gazeteer as well as the
Tales from the Frontier,
The FFE Journals, and
Further Stories, oh and Elite Dangerous
Ackcanphi:
There is a Institute for Science and a renowned Artists Colony... The two streams.... At this artists colony we find Taylor Arkwright (a Bard?) who painted "The Third Leaf" which i imagine is relating to
Awen also I suggest looking at this
video. Interesting that in ED this system is just three Suns.... But Ark Wright .... we will get to the Ark later...
Bedaho:
The planet Home causes every living creature to shimmer and glister with golden hues.... The result of an organism that will change you permenantly to a golden hue if you stay there for more than 30 days... Augustus Brenquith (a version of Ahmed Samarandara) is a great explorer who left a glittering legacy - discovered Akwada. He is known to have been from Bedaho. Brenquith the name... Bren (having black hair) Quith - another version of Quit. So Brenquith could mean quitting black hair. Wandering slightly (Outer Limts) from Bedaho but alont the same track of the explorer.... Lorn (no last name?) also an explorer like (or possibly is?) Brenquith. He takes slave women on his trips and if they have dark? hair - he makes them dye blond. His Ex-Wife (Alista) lives on Aymiay and has Dark Curls and Brown Eyes like her Brother (Kharon) who now lives with her. Lorn and Alista have a son named Lester. Alista Marlbrons last name is probably Marl - a yarn made by twisting different colors together and Bron another version of Brown.... or could it relate to Bran?
Cemiess:
A curious system, thought to have lost its outer planets many millennia ago due to a close encounter with another star system. The governor of Tau Ceti is featured prominently in the description of this system- his name being Santorini... The island of Thera/Acrotiri where the Mountain blew up and became a Caldera filled with water... Also the name Prox Mire.... This is where I jump to the FFE Journals for a bit - Lucas Byzantium and his ship the High Caldera... He gets sent on a trip to Hell (Imperial Prison on Zovese) for having a whole lot of DreamWare chips. Anwen is know to be accessable through high mountain lakes or caves (A nice
paper on the celtic otherworld). Ya i think Cemiess is one location of a portal..... In Holdtocks "Merlins Wood" - A Black Knight would materialize from the forest when water was poured onto a precious emerald at the brim of the fountain. Emerald of course is a planet in Cemiess as well as the system having a Glass City and Secret Pond View.... This could be a representation of the Lake as Portal. - A great video about
the Cauldron.
“And in the middle of the valley you will see a great tree, its branches greener than the greenest fir trees. And under that tree is a well, and near the well is a marble slab, and on the slab there is a silver bowl fastened to a silver chain so they cannot be separated. Take the bowl and throw a bowlful of water over the slab. And then you will hear a tumultuous noise, and think that heaven and earth are trembling with the noise. And after the noise there will be a very cold shower – a shower of hailstones – and it will be difficult for you to survive it. And after the shower there will be fine weather. And there will not be one leaf on the tree that the shower will not have carried away. And then a flock of birds will alight on the tree, and you have never heard in your country such singing as theirs. And when you are enjoying the singing the most you will hear a great groaning and moaning coming towards you along the valley. And with that you will see a knight on a pure black horse, dressed in brocaded silk of pure black, with a banner of pure black linen on his spear. And he will attach you as quickly as he can. If you flee, he will catch up with you; if you wait for him on horseback, he will leave you on foot. And if you do not find trouble there, you will not need to look for it as long as you live.” xi Owain
Merope:
I think Merope is the also a Portal... possibly the Glass Fortress - Caer Wydyr. This is associated with Glastonbury - once an Island in the river/marshland. Also associated with Glastonbury is the tree... And Avalon. Which is why I am suggesting this might be the Garden of Paradise - considering the actions of the Thargoid Sensors etc..
The Spoils of Annwn itself is related to
The Marriage of Branwen which among the similarities of only having seven return but also has the magic Cauldron which revives the dead but they cannot speak... Think about our communication problems with thargoids. In the Spoiles of Annwn at the Castle of Glass it is defended by six thousand and it was difficult to speak to them... I believe this is the reason we cannot speak with the Thargoids.
Oh ya I havent gotten to the Dark Wheel
I think the Great Ship that the Narathnu talk about is the Bubble Ship that was kidnapped - filled with Scientists and Miners... And that event is possibly related to the curious stripping of planets from various systems - such as Cemiess and Asellus Primus.... I wonder about the earthquake on Rhea.... Ya there is also the Wanderer... Remember that Whale that disappeard? Im thinking its not good though and we dont want Azimuth to find it thinking something like
The Colour out of Space.
I meant to do a thing on Exbeur - land of our Miner Terrorists... but I will let you look that up in the Journals and the Gazetteer... But there is a Douglas MountHilbert for those interested in mountains.... And Hilbert is a mathematicians name .... Hilbert Space.... Interesting choice for the second galaxy in No Mans Sky....
Ya back to Black Wheel... The symbol is a target over a bird. Will go ahead and assume a black bird since it is the Black Wheel. In welsh myth there is Bran the Blessed ... Guardian of Britan... (of course he was a shiny raven i think). Earlier I realized that Holdstock had described a swirling mass of dark birds as a Dark Wheel. I asked myself what Greek myth involves shooting a bird (the dark wheel symbol shows a target over a bird). I think the answer is the Myth of Hercules and the Stymphalian Birds. The birds were living on an island in the River Stymphalos in Arcadia and as one of Herakles' labours - he was to get rid of them. He used a rattle and his poisoned arrows to kill and drive them off - they flew to an island called Aretias. The Argonauts encountered the Birds on Aertias before going to get the Golden Fleece. Holdstock uses birds as a portal device - He described the Dark Circle in his book Lavondys. In The Hollowing he uses birds twice as Portals - the hollyjack and the Faulcon... This is where I would have people take a look at the Langford Basilisk fractal from the FFE Journals. And then look at the
Story that the idea comes from.
"... independently discovered by at least two late amateurs of computer graphics. The "Fractal Star" is generated by a relatively simple iterative procedure which determines whether any point in two-dimensional space (the complex field) does or does not belong to its domain. This algorithm is now classified." The winking parrot.... Sound Familiar?
There was a Maenad in the FFE Journals named Cat Svevo... svevo meaning from the region of Svevia - makes you wonder if it was a reference to this
cat. But i digress.... The maenids were hunting down a group that was stealing important artistic landscapes.... they caught them and got them to return things.... but the Maenids started stealing.... Is the Winking Cat - Cat Svevo?
So ya I think the Great Ship is the Bubble ship - King Arthurs ship and the Argo...
It flew off into the past with a Whale .... And ya the Dark Wheel are Guardians of the Portals - The portals possibly to multiple realities like the original Elite? Or im still holding out for the Magellenic Cloud.
There is more but im fading ....
Obfuscated in the outer rim....
There was a Column in The Athenaeum under the title
Marginalia - signed by Autolycus....
Also written but never published by that author was a
childrens book.
