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Anonymous writes...
I had thought I was done, but then I thought up more questions. (Oh, well,
my last set was a short one of two.) 1. Isn't a katana a kind of sword? Did
Brooklyn's mate have this name when he met her? 2. Which leads me to a much
broader question -- what is the gargoyle custom of naming? In the Avalon
World Tour all the members of other clans (that I can think of, at least)
had names. I know at least in 994 the Scottish gargs had no names, and was
it the same all over the world at that time? Did gargoyles gradually take
names to adapt to modern times? (Which I don't really understand. Names
don't seem to be any more necessary now than they were a thousand years
ago, though the Manhattan clan seems to think they are.) 3. Are there any
clans left in Scotland? If no, was Demona's the last one? 4. Did Demona
ever lead another clan? 5. Were the gargoyles ever going to get new clothes
in the near future, or would they attend all those formal ceremonies (about
the recognition of gargoyles as sentient species, the granting of equal
rights to them under the law, and whatever else) wearing thousand-year old
loincloths? 6. Just a little trivia. What color was Hudson's hair before it
turned gray? That's it. Thanks again!
Greg responds...
1. Yes and yes.
2. A lot depended on how much interaction a particular clan had with
humans. The Ishimura clan taught Bushido to the Samurai of that province.
That caused them to take names early on. The Guatemalan Clan had some
interaction with a Mayan sorcerer with whom they protected the rain forest.
They're all named after their pendants. Probably traditional monikers handed
down from generation to generation, occupations that became names over time,
like John Smith or Karen Carpenter. I'd guess that the London clan began to
use names around the time they opened their Soho shop. Basically, naming is
a human trait. But it's addictive and easy to adapt to. In fact, it's
somewhat hard to resist once you've started. I'd guess there aren't many
gargoyles left in the world who don't have names. (But there are a few.)
3. Perhaps.
4. Besides the one in Macbeth's original era? No, not for any length of
time.
5. I don't know. Can't imagine Goliath in a tux. I'm also not sure what
ceremonies we'd be having in my continuity, at least in the immediate future.
6. White, I think. But I reserve the right to change my mind.(GDW/12-11-97)