About my scary pictures

I just like drawing scary pictures and I like horror movies, as well as death metal.  That is how I face my dark specter.  I'm not evil, I just like to look scary.  I also like Halloween.   It is just my twisted sense of humor.

About power

Power-over is a horrible thing to want to have.  The only power I have or want is power-from-within, which is freedom with responsibility.  The other and third kind of power is power-with, which is friendship among equals.  Power-over is mistaken by many feminists, especially Dianics as "patriarchy".  "matriarchy" is just as bad as "patriarchy".

about the TSR dungions and drgons Riverwind

Riverwind

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Riverwind

Goldmoon and Riverwind. Illustration by Keith Parkinson.
First appearance	Dragons of Autumn Twilight (1984)
Created by	Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Game information
Homeland	Que Shu
Gender	Male
Race	Nomad
Class	Barbarian
Alias	Riverwind of the Que Shu

Riverwind (also known as Riverwind of the Que Shu tribe or Riverwind of the Que Shu) is a fictional character from the Dragonlance series of Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplements and novels, created by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman and published by TSR (and later by Wizards of the Coast).
Riverwind made his first public appearance in the first novel of the original Chronicles Trilogy, Dragons of Autumn Twilight, in 1984. However, the character's proper creation was during a tabletop role-playing game session where Tracy and Laura Hickman, Margaret Weis and Terry Phillips, between others, developed the basic storyline of Dragonlance.^[1]
Throughout the series, Riverwind became a well known character and, in 14 years, authors made him the protagonist in two novels, Riverwind the Plainsman (1990) and Spirit of the Wind (1998).

Introduction

Patrick Lucien Price, author of the "Bertrem's essay on numerology" short story, published in Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home (1987), describes Riverwind as a character that demands change, seeks variety and new opportunities to develop himself, also a natural leader of men and generous, impressionable, a humanitarian.^[2]
Few facts are given about the early life of the character itself, a shepherd living just outside the village of Que Shu, a barbarian settlement in Ansalon, in the fictional world of Krynn. Laura Hickman and Kate Novak detail, in the short story "Heart of Goldmoon" published in the Love and War (1987) recompilation, Riverwind's faith in the ancient gods and especially in Mishakal, goddess of healing, although the common belief in the tribe was that the high priestess's ancestors become gods.^[3] Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman give a reason in the short story "True Knight", published in The Cataclysm (1992) recompilation, as Riverwind's family is not a native from the Que Shu tribe, but instead his ancestors, Michael, a cleric of Mishakal, and Nikol, daughter of a knight, travelled to the plains shortly after the Cataclysm, the event in which the gods threw a fiery mountain to punish Krynn arrogance, and kept practicing their religion.^[4]
In "Heart of Goldmoon", Hickman and Novak also inform the reader about the journey to the Hall of the Sleeping Spirits, in which Riverwind acts as a bodyguard to Goldmoon, protecting her life when Hollow-sky, the other bodyguard traveling with them, tries to force her to marry him. With Riverwind and Goldmoon declaring their mutual love, the story ends with Riverwind affirming his intention to request a Courting quest, which would give him the right to marry Goldmoon.
Paul B. Thompson and Tonya C. Cook give details of such quest in the novel Riverwind the Plainsman (1990), in which the character, needing to find proof that the ancient gods existed, travels to Xak Tsaroth and retrieves the Blue Crystal Staff, a holy relic blessed by Mishakal herself, guarded by Khisanth, a black dragon.^[5] Although the novel ends with the delivery of the staff, in Dragons of Autumn Twilight (1984) the authors explain, through Goldmoon, that the tribe tried to stone him when he could not explain how the staff could prove the existence of the old gods.^[6] However, before they started stoning, Goldmoon embraced him, and both vanished from the tribe.^[7]

[edit] Development through the series

[edit] Chronicles Trilogy

As in the "Heart of Goldmoon" short story, Riverwind is given the role of Goldmoon's protector in Dragons of Autumn Twilight (1984). Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman kept his involvement at a minimum, only describing him as a character with a serious demeanor. The War of the Lance sourcebook (2004) indicates that he is a man of few words, proud and wary of strangers, who does not make friends easily and people have to go a long way to earn his regard.^[8] It is only after Sturm Brightblade—Squire of the Knights of Solamnia and one of the members of a group of friends who met them in Solace—feels his honor has been insulted that Riverwind's behavior is modified, becoming somewhat friendlier.^[9]
Understandably, it is in battle sequences where the authors give him more protagonism, effectively drawing on his past as a trained warrior. It is in one of those sequences, against the black dragon Khisanth in Xak Tsaroth, where Riverwind is mortally wounded by the dragons' acid breath. However, Goldmoon, after meeting the soul of her mother and the goddess Mishakal, goddess of healing, is able to restore him to health.
It is at the end of the first book, when Riverwind marries Goldmoon just outside Pax Tharkas after defeating Lord Verminaard, that Riverwind receives more attention from the authors.^[10]
Weis and Hickman continue diminishing the protagonism of Riverwind in Dragons of Winter Night (1985). In the second half of Dragons of Spring Dawning (1985), the authors reveal that Goldmoon is pregnant, and the couple decides to stay in Kalaman, ending their participation in the Chronicles Trilogy.

[edit] Lost Chronicles Trilogy

In Dragons of the Dwarven Depths, Tanis leaves Riverwind in charge of the safety of the refugees from Pax Tharkas while the rest of the companions search for an entrance to the underground dwarven kingdom of Thorbardin. Riverwind oversees the refugees as they evacuate to Thorbardin ahead of an attack by the remnants of the Red Dragonarmy.

[edit] Legends Trilogy

As the Legends trilogy, written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman in 1986, focuses on the twins Caramon and Raistlin Majere, Riverwind's appearance is small. In Time of the Twins (1986) Riverwind visits Caramon and Tika Majere at the Inn of the Last Home to refuse to escort Lady Crysania to the Tower of High Sorcery of Wayreth^[11] and to inform them that his son, Wanderer, is already three years old, and the birth of his twin daughters, Moonsong and Brightdawn.
By wearing the Mantle of the Chieftain, the authors point that he has been named Chieftain of the Que Shu and a number of other tribes like the Que Teh and Que Kiri, which must mean that he was successful in bringing peace.^[12]

[edit] Chaos War series

There are no books about the attacks of Chaos's armies to the Abanasinian tribes. Chris Pierson's novel, Spirit of the Wind (1998), informs that the Knights of Takhisis, knights under the service of Takhisis, goddess of evil, invaded the area bringing brutes, barbarians from northern isles, forcing some tribes to join the Que Shu village to repel the attack, while others separated and left for the mountains. He also hints that at least shadow wights, creatures that possess souls, vanishing them from the world of Krynn, including others' memories of them, attacked the tribe, as Moonsong and Brightdawn explain that their brother, Wanderer, has a three year old son, but nobody, not even Wanderer himself, remembers his mother.^[13]

[edit] Age of Mortals series

In Spirit of the Wind (1998), Chris Pierson covers the last weeks of Riverwind's life. Afflicted by a terminal illness that had been the cause of his father's death, and without Mishakal, who left Krynn after the Chaos War, to give clerical powers to Goldmoon to heal him, he travels to the Inn of the Last Home to inform Caramon and Tika about it.^[14]
The novel continues explaining that a couple of kender arrive requesting Caramon's help to stop Malystryx, the red dragon overlord, from destroying their home town, Kendermore. Riverwind decides to help them, and is involved in the defense of the city. With the imminent invasion of the dragon and the ogre armies supporting her, Riverwind and Brightdawn travel to Blood Watch, where Malystryx's Peak was situated and her only egg was laid. Brightdawn dies on her way to the lair while fighting the nest's guardian, Yovanna,^[15] but Riverwind is able to crack the egg open and slay the embryo within it, forcing Malystryx to go back to the lair and slay him. With Riverwind's sacrifice, the kender were able to flee safely to Hylo, as Malystryx was too depressed to chase them.^[16]

[edit] Dragonlance movie

Main article: Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight

Actor Phil LaMarr voices Riverwind and Gilthanas in the animated Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight movie,^[17] directed by Will Meugniot, written by George Strayton and produced by Toonz Animation, Commotion Pictures, Epic Level Entertainment, Kickstart Entertainment and Paramount Pictures.

 

about this blog

In this blog, in blogger (Google) the first entry that shows up on it is the last post on this blog.

More about Aleister Crowley

Alesiser Crowley started "grey" magic, and was the first one to popularize the spelling "magick".  Crowley, for some reason did evil magic to get opium, which he got hooked on (addicted to).  I just like the song "Mr. Crowley" because it has creepy-sounding organ music at the beginning of the song.

a little about me

I am not an initiated Wiccan, though I dedicated myself to the Goddess and God with Scott Cunningham's "self dedication ritual".  I care about the coven I was in in 1990-1991.  I care about everyone in that group.  I just joke about evil, death and things like demons, though I know how to banish the real thing.

Blessed Be,
Riverwind

How I learned to care for the Earth and others

This is how I started to care about this planet and people in general:  When I first joined Wicca, I was a "Wicccan fundamentalist" that hated Christians.  At first, as far as respecting women goes, I was raised by a strong-spirited mother, and a decent hard working father.  This was my foundation, and I was raised Roman Catholic.  I got to be a solitary Wiccan at 19 years of age.  It taught me that there is indeed a female principle to the universe.  By the way, as a teenager in high school, I had a good African American karate instructor (sensei) at a dojo in the San Fernando Valley called CPK.  It taught me good self control.  As far as caring for the planet goes, I saw episodes of a cartoon series called Captian Planet.  Then I was involved in a coven that I choose to keep anonymous.  I left the L.A. area about a year after I joined the coven I was in.  I later on had a kind Native American friend that converted me to the church (protestant).  I watched much of TBN, and saw end-times movies.  They scared the crap out of me.  My experiences with this Native American Christian from the Navajo Nation got me out of the mindset that all Christians were hypocrites (this individual was big-hearted and generous with her time, and even prayed for the rainforests to heal.)  I soon learned to care about Christians, but still had a disdain for ones that were real hypocrites. (Jesus often got in arguments with the hypocrite Pharisees of His).  I have still a disdain for Crowley students and black magicians of all kinds, as well as the people in the Craft community that call Christians "Xtian".  I got involved later on as a solitary Wiccan and do feel some churches and the coven I was in hurt me to a degree.  I have been to Rainbow gatherings, as well as to Grateful Dead shows in the past too.  I always joke about Alister Crowley getting ripped to shreds by demons he conjured backfiring on him. (someone was probably smoking a cigar or cigarette. (demons hate tobacco). 

About Jews and Witches

During the Burning times (inquisition), the Jews would guard and warn Witches of the churchmen, and in turn, the Witches would guard and warn Jews during their Shofars.  This was common all over Europe.

About Jeanne

My friend and adopted baby sister, Jeanne went to an African-American Church in the Bay Area, just asking for a place to stay, and those gossips falsely accused her of being full of demons.  Over 35 churches have treated this poor Native American. like trash for being poor, autistic and in Wallowa County, Oregon, for being native American.  Chief Joseph was ran out of the Wallowas in 1877, and years later, Taz Conner started the Nez Perce Homeland Project.  Tamkaliks was started by the Conner Family.

Needless to say, Jeanne is about the best Christian that I ever knew, and is not even a celebrity preacher.

If you delete this, the PUNX police will arrest you, try you and kick you A** with Black Flag

about Wicca

Wicca is an accepted, legal religion in almost all English speaking countries.  About 900 countries accept it and it is legal there.  It was first legalized in England.  It is not a church, and large groups should be called groves. (groves is a druid idea.)  Some think it is the "apostate church" from the book of revelation in the Christian Bible.  Wiccan covens and solitarys are autonomous.  We call individual covens "Circles" and Wicca as a whole is called the Craft.  By the way, "perfect love and perfect trust" is within a coven and not in the Craft as a whole.  It is not perfection either.  (We perfect ourselves over lifetimes.  By the way, those who are deemed "Warlocks" (traitors to a coven) can still be Solitary Wiccans.  Just mind the rule of three and harm none. 

about resentment

Please Wiccans, will you get over your resentment over Jesus and Christianity in general?  It is counterproductive and does no good.

about "Robin Hood"

I am the one who posted the infamous story of "Robin Hood".  So many people got things stolen from them because of my fiction.  It was about people breaking into computers and stealing money from the rich and giving to the poor.

This is about good and evil music

Heavy metalers, do not play or listen to that demonic thrash death metal.  I am a non religious wiccan.  I like metal that is not evil.  I like metal like Megadeth, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Ozzy like "The Ultimate Sin", "Blizzard of Ozz", as well as punk like Rancid "Let's Go", the Vandals.  These are just a few artists I like, as well as Ratt, Van Halen and others.  People really need to understand our humor, and that will take time.  I do not like gangsta rap at all, such as "Cop Killer", though I understand how they feel about the police, as well as the punks do.  Christ Illusion is so blasphemous and glorifies evil.  Do not use hard drugs such as crank, meth, speed, LSD, blaze, doses, crack, crunk.

About evil

I just joke about it.  I make jokes about Chuckie from Child's Play killing with a butcher knife, Freddy Kruger giving people nightmares,  Jason hacking people to pieces with a hatchet, Leatherface chopping people up with his chainsaw, etc.

I also expose evil on the Internet.

Something about the Green Party

The Green Party, for the most part, sides with the Democrats in national issues and votes Green in state and local politics.  They can be swing voters sometimes though.

About the Goddess and God's dark sides

The Lady and Lord do have their dark sides as well as their kind, gentle sides.  The Goddess's dark side manifests in tornados and earthquakes.  The God's dark side manifests as "the Bogey Man"  or something like Freddy Kruger, something like what was in the "Exorcist" or "Jason" from Friday the 13th.  Our horror movies are full of the God's dark side, and a movie like Earthquake or Airport '77 are examples of the Goddess's dark side.  On a lighter note, the God manifests his dark side as Bart Simpson, and the Goddess manifests hers as Marge Simpson's sisters.

explaining about drugs

first off, hard drugs should be illegal (LSD and all its variants, cocaine,PCP,ecstacy, heroin, speed | crank | and other chemical drugs.  Marijuana should be legal, taxed and regulated.  Alcohol should be taxed about the same, and tobacco should be taxed more moderately than it is now.  Coffee is of course a food.

About the relationship between Christians and Wiccans

Before I go into this, not all pagans are Wiccans, but all Wiccans are Pagan.  We Wiccans and I am only mentioning Wiccans because I am only Wiccan.  We mean you Christians no harm.  We do care about the earth and please Christians, do pray for and help the rainforests, oceans, our wetlands and our trees.  We all share this planet together.  I know that Native American beliefs are pagan belief also.  Most Wiccans like to have stone circles and nature preserves for places of worship.  We are just differerent, and we are not against you in any way.  We do not sell our souls to demons or a devil in any way.

About communism

Really, communism does not necessarilly mean a totaltarian state or nation.  Rember, Nazi philosophy believes in a totaltarian state too. 

About the Green Party

Somtimes. the Green Party votes Republicam or supports a war when that war is a just war.

• A just war can only be waged as a last resort. All non-violent options must be exhausted before the use of force can be justified.
• A war is just only if it is waged by a legitimate authority. Even just causes cannot be served by actions taken by individuals or groups who do not constitute an authority sanctioned by whatever the society and outsiders to the society deem legitimate.
• A just war can only be fought to redress a wrong suffered. For example, self-defense against an armed attack is always considered to be a just cause (although the justice of the cause is not sufficient--see point #4). Further, a just war can only be fought with "right" intentions: the only permissible objective of a just war is to redress the injury.
• A war can only be just if it is fought with a reasonable chance of success. Deaths and injury incurred in a hopeless cause are not morally justifiable.
• The ultimate goal of a just war is to re-establish peace. More specifically, the peace established after the war must be preferable to the peace that would have prevailed if the war had not been fought.
• The violence used in the war must be proportional to the injury suffered. States are prohibited from using force not necessary to attain the limited objective of addressing the injury suffered.
• The weapons used in war must discriminate between combatants and non-combatants. Civilians are never permissible targets of war, and every effort must be taken to avoid killing civilians. The deaths of civilians are justified only if they are unavoidable victims of a deliberate attack on a military target.

I know this is a hard pill to swallow for peace-loving Greens, but it might save this planet.