"So, that's when I said, 'Khao, you can lead a horse to a water, but you can't make her clop!'"
Props paused halfway through her plate of eggs.
Ebon winced from where he sat besides Eagle Eye.
Pilate and Belle sat in dead silence while Kera scarfed her plate up.
"Annnnnd yeah... that's when the Herald officially put me on latrine duty," Zaid finished with a nervous smile.
More dead silence.
Zaid gulped. "This isn't helping, isn't it?"
"Nope."
"Uh uh."
"No no no."
"All we can think about is Rainbow Dash and Roarke."
"Same here."
"Yes yes yes."
"Pffft. Yeah, well..." Zaid shrugged and slumped against the mess hall table. "It's not like I didn't try."
"Awwwww... and you gave it a good try, Zaidy Waidy!" Props grinned, lifting him back up by his shoulder. "But sometimes you just gotta let sleeping mares—"
The Noble Jury shook suddenly with the tell-tale signs of a hovercraft docking within the hangar.
"Nancy shakes!" Floydien exclaimed. "The black ball return turns!"
"Squee!" Props hopped out of her seat, letting go of Zaid.
"Guaah—" THUD! His chin hit the table first before his body ragdolled onto the floor. "Ooof!"
"I wanna be the first mare to shake their hooves!" Props sing-songed, hop-hop-hopping through the kitchen.
"Propsy! Hold up!" Ebon galloped after her. "Don't crowd in on them!"
"Ebonnnnn!" Eagle's voice cracked as he scampered behind them. "Don't crowd in on her crowding in on them! Just hold on!"
"Mmmmmmm..." Kera licked her plate clean, burped, then pointed at where Props had just sat. "You think she's gonna finish it?"
"Uhhhhh..." Belle glanced at Pilate. The couple stood up in unison. "Have your fill, darling. We'll be... r-right back."
"Indeed." Pilate rested a hoof on Belle's side as the two briskly trotted towards the ship's rear.
"Heeeee!" Kera zipped towards Props' place and began attacking her scrambled eggs. "Mmmmm... so scrumptioustastical!"
"Mmmf... gross gross," Floydien stood up and walked the opposite way.
"Guh..." Zaid stood back up, his dizzy eyes seeing stars. "Heh-heh." He grinned crookedly. 'Raindoarke.' Phweeeeeee." Thwump!
The hangar had just closed, and the doors to the Lounge sphere were beginning to hiss open at the precise moment that Props and several other Jurists skidded to a stop.
"Woohoo!" Props bounced up high, pumping a hoof in the air. "Hail the conquering heroes!"
"Uhhh..." Ebon blinked curiously. "Just who is conquering who, exactly?"
"Fine, Ebony. Heehee..." Props rolled her blue eyes with a mischievous grin. "Conkin' heroes."
Ebon blanched. "You've been hanging around Zaid too much."
"He smells just fine once you get to know his insides."
"Wat."
Eagle Eye rushed up, breathless. "Come on, guys! Can't we just give them some space?"
"Funny you should say that!" Props winked. "Cuz I bet they soared waaaaay into outer space last night! Heehee!"
"Unnngh..." Eagle face-hooved intensely. "My dear sweet gentle puppy-nuzzling Spark..."
At last, Rainbow Dash stepped out, followed by Roarke.
"Welcome back, ladies!" Props flung a forelimb around Ebon Mane as she grinned proudly. "Want Ebony here to cook you up some love grub? Bet you're hungry after all... that... exercise..."
Rainbow Dash trotted briskly past them.
Props blinked curiously at her. "Uhhhhhhh..."
Ebon winced, whispering in Props' ear. "Maybe the honeymoon went south?"
"How come?" Props whispered back. "Do Rainbow and Roarke have mountain ice melting in the north?"
"Uhhhh... hi there... Rain...bow?" Eagle Eye waved weakly as the pegasus marched past him.
She nearly plowed over Pilate and Bellesmith as the two approached the lower door of the stairwell. They witnessed quietly as Rainbow opened the hatch to the engine room door and made her way through.
"That's... rather odd," Belle said.
"Did Rainbow just walk past us?"
"And how." Belle nodded. "If only you could see the look on her face."
"Angry? Sad?"
"Just... blank."
"Well, this may be a side of Rainbow we don't know."
"How do you mean?"
"Shhhh..." Pilate hissed. "I smell metal..."
Right at that precise moment, Roarke shuffled up. Unlike Rainbow, she came to a stop, fidgeting, but not quite looking at either of the two beloveds.
"Roarke... how is... I mean... erm..." Belle fumbled for words. "Oh dear..."
"Is everything alright, Roarke?" Pilate asked.
Roarke clenched her teeth, but nevertheless her voice carried through. "I... d-don't know," she said in a strangely quiet tone.
"Roarke..." Belle smiled. "As you well know, it's a tiny ship." She suppressed a giggle. "Please don't give us the awkward task of finding out on our own."
"I... I..." Roarke squirmed where she stood. Her muzzle contorted. Slowly—like a bending tree—she turned towards the two. "I think th-there may be something wrong with her."
"In what way?" Pilate asked.
"It... I don't..." Roarke bit her lip. Clearing her throat, she took one bold step towards the two, her head tilted downward. "If there was a way... anyway that... th-that..."
"Roarke..." Belle trotted forward and clasped one of the mare's hooves with her own. She smiled into the pony's lenses. "We would be more than happy to help."
Roarke said nothing. Slowly, gently, she just nodded.
"You can stay by our side if you like," Belle added.
Roarke gulped and said in a raspy tone: "Indeed."
"Come on." Belle motioned with her head. "I bet she's in her hammock by now."
"I beg to differ," Pilate said as she followed the two into the engine room.
"Huh?" Belle glanced back. "What makes you say that?"
The zebra's ears twitched. "Can't you hear the rustling of paper?"
Rainbow's hooves rummaged throughout the interior of the navigation room. She yanked books off shelves, flung folders open, and searched through every drawer.
"Come on... come on..."
Not for one second did she cease tearing the place apart.
"Come on come on come on!" She hissed at herself. "I just need a blank sheet! Any sheet! Yes!" At last, she stumbled upon a rolled-up map with a pure white back to it. She spread the thing open on the desk and squatted before it. Feeling around the table, she yanked a pen loose, dipped it in an ink well, and began drawing with her map.
She was about halfway done when Roarke, Belle, and Pilate showed up. Not long after, Props, Eagle Eye, and Ebon Mane stuck their heads through the engine room door.
Roarke leaned in towards Belle and Pilate. "She's been... mmmm... obsessing with a strange symbol all morning."
Belle leaned towards her. "Was this before or after the—"
Roarke glared.
"Ahem. Right." Belle leaned back. "Let's just... see what becomes of this."
"I can hear you guys," Rainbow droned while in mid-sketch. "And if that's Roarke's tense breaths I hear right next to you, just tell her to relax. I'm not crazy. I swear."
Everypony glanced at Roarke, who then glanced at the bulkheads, frowning. Clearing her throat, Props shuffled up. "Uhhh... whatcha drawin', Dashie?"
"That's what I'm hoping to find out." Rainbow sniffed and sniffed. "Is that eggs I smell in your mane?"
"Derrrrrr—"
"Goddess, I'm famished! I could eat a whole bowl full of carrots. Stalks and all."
"Jee..." Ebon smiled. "I wonder why—mmfmfmmff!" He gagged siddenly on Eagle's lavender tail.
"Hrmmm... c-can't quite get the color down," Rainbow said. "But it'll have to do for now." She finally leaned back from what she had just hastily scribbled onto the back of the map in black ink. "Pilate, would you mind doing that voodoo you do?"
"Huh? Oh... uhm..." The zebra trotted forward, activating O.A.S.I.S. "By all means." The sphere floated up and levitated over the desk. "I do hope you haven't just vandalized one of Mr. Floydien's treasured maps."
"Odds are I only defaced one of several Ledomaritan provinces," Rainbow droned. "The dayum elk can cry me a river. You scanning yet?"
"Patience, dear friend," Pilate said. "Trying to take it all in..."
"That's a fancy diagram, Rainbow," Eagle said.
"If you say so."
"How'd you knock it out so fast?"
"Well, army guy, if you must know—I can't stop friggin' seeing it."
"Ptooie!" Ebon rubbed his fuzzy muzzle. "Seeing it?"
"Like..." Props blinked. "It's in this room?"
"Did I or did I not tell you that I ain't crazy?"
"Eheheh...well..."
Rainbow swiveled in the chair and pointed past the observation room beyond the door. "It's over there."
"Towards the bow?"
"East. And it won't go away."
"Wait..." Belle leaned forward. "You mean, like a beacon, Rainbow Dash?"
"This isn't like any of the machine world flames I've seen before," Rainbow said. She gulped and curled her hooves to her chest. "I can—like—see it with my eyes shut."
"But... only when you face east?"
"More or less. It's super freaky, and it's not aligned with the Sun."
"So, swing your hammock westward!" Ebon said with a grin.
Rainbow turned and glared at him.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaand shuttingupnow," Ebon squeaked, hiding behind a smirking Eagle Eye.
"Why you seeing it now out of nowhere?" Props asked.
"I... I really don't know."
"Rainbow, we can't rightly expect all of this 'Austraeoh' business to function with total rhyme and reason," Belle said.
"Can't we, though?" Rainbow stared at her. She then pivoted towards Roarke. "Hey, Roarke, you there, girl?"
The ex bounty hunter jolted. "Hmmm?" She looked up.
"Just making sure you're still with me." Rainbow smirked.
"Yes, Rainbow," Roarke said with a nod. "I am still with you."
Ebon glanced at Roarke, then at Rainbow Dash. He remained silent.
"O... kay..." Pilate licked his lips as the manasphere stopped flickering over the table and retreated back to his metal choker. "I do believe I have it."
"Good!" Rainbow swiveled to face him, her face bright and curious. "Focus on it with them mimetic stripes of yours!" Her eyes narrowed. "Do you recognize it at all?"
Pilate's brow furrowed in deep thought.
"Foxtaur... Stratopolis...?" Rainbow gulped. "...the tome?"
"I... d-do believe... I have seen it before," Pilate said.
"For real?"
"Indeed. If I recall, this particular symbol showed up on rare occasions, and almost exclusively when there was also an occurrence of the Eljunbyro and Odrsjot characters."
"Is that so?" Belle blinked. "I wonder why."
"Is there a connection?" Rainbow asked. "Like... what could it mean?"
"I..." Pilate winced. "I am sorry, Rainbow, but I cannot say. The patterns don't hold any meaning to me."
"Do you at least know what it could mean in Xonan?" Rainbow asked.
"'Yaefaerda,"' Kera mumbled, her mouth full of eggs.
Everypony swiveled to face the little filly.
"Yiffy what now?" Rainbow balked.
Kera gulped and scooped another clump of scrambled eggs from the levitating plate beside her. "'Yaefaerda,'" she repeated, pointing at the drawing with her floating fork. "At least, that's what Nightshade taught me... before I single-hoofedly blew her popsicle stand!"
"Wait... You escaped Nightshade Industries alone?" Props gasped. A blink. "You stole my breakfast?!"
"Hey, you snooze, you lose." Kera burped. "Or... mrmmmfff... in your coltfriend's case, you snooze and ooze. Heeheehee—BURRP!"
Pilate sighed long and hard. "I'm going to have a very long talk with that stallion..."
"But... like..." Rainbow fidgeted, glancing anxiously at Kera. "You have any clue what the word means?"
Kera shrugged. "I'unno." She took another bite and trotted into the next room. "Didn't know what 'Odrsjot' was all about until it came up and bit me!"
Rainbow Dash stared after her. She sighed, slumping against the table as her ruby eyes traced the lines and circles. "Nnnngh... just what I need. More of this crap."
"Relax, Rainbow." Belle said, resting a hoof on the mare's shoulder. "At least you knew to be on top of it!"
"And it's not as though we're completely in the dark," Pilate said with a smile. "At least now we have a name to go by."
"Mrmmf... thanks to Kera."
"Heheh... yes... as always... thanks to Kera."
"No need to be anxious, Dashie!" Props slid in with a grin. "You're used to this, aren't ya? Besides... pffft... it's not like you've got a half-dozen more of these discover or anything silly like that!"
A dull pair of ruby eyes glared at Props.
The blonde mare stared with a frozen grin. "... ... ...I'm gonna go try contacting Unky Prowsy again!" And she swiveled about and marched into the engine room.
"We're... uh... going to help her," Eagle said, trotting out of the room.
Ebon blinked. "We are? Eep!" He felt himself being tugged away. The engine room door closed behind them.
Meanwhile, Belle was leaning in and whispering something to Pilate. Pilate murmured something back, then tilted his ears towards Roarke. After a knowing nod, he pivoted Rainbow's way. "We can discuss this another time. Shall we tell Floydien to embark for Val Roa once again?"
"Uhhhh... yeah, sure." Rainbow nodded. "Totally."
"Very well then." The couple trotted out.
"And... y'know..." Rainbow waved, smiling. "Thanks. As always."
"Hmmm..." Belle smiled back. "Don't thank just us." And she and Pilate left, leaving the door slightly cracked.
Swallowing, Rainbow twirled around. She looked at Roarke.
Roarke looked at her.
"Hey..." Rainbow said, waving.
Roarke's head tilted forward and back. "Greetings."
Rainbow raised an eyebrow, but she nevertheless cleared her throat and said, "I... uhm... I-I'm sorry for... like... m-making things so awkward... j-just now." She gulped. "I really... really wanted to avoid an awkward morning at all costs."
"Awkwardness was inevitable," Roarke droned.
"Oh?" Rainbow looked up with doe eyes. Her ears folded as she glanced down. "Oh..." She fidgeted in her seat. "Oh, yeah... I guess so.."
Silence.
At last, Roarke drifted forward, She tossed her mane until a few slender braids cascaded over her shoulder. She presented them before Rainbow Dash. "Here..."
"...?" Rainbow glanced curiously at the gesture.
"You... do enjoy toying with them so much," Roarke said softly. "It seems to make things... less awkward."
Rainbow blinked. "Hmmm..." Her fuzzy cheeks turned rosy. "Yeah. But I can think of a faster way to do the same thing."
"Hmm? What is that—?" Roarke wheezed as Rainbow flew over and hugged her tightly, nuzzling the mare cheek to cheek.
"Therrrrre..." Rainbow hummed with their muzzles together. "Does that get the stiffness out?"
Roarke exhaled. "In a manner of speaking..."
"Heeheehee... dang it, girl! We gotta work on loosening that tongue of yours!"
"Hrmmm. You would certainly be the expert on that."
"Huh?" Rainbow blinked and leaned back. "What do you mean by—"
Roarke's muzzle was curved.
Rainbow twitched. She rolled her eyes. "Ungh! Dang it!" She ran a hoof through her mane as she chuckled. "I did not see that coming."
"Neither did I last evening."
"Gah! Double-header!" Rainbow giggled and draped her neck against Roarke's shoulder as her wings flapped. "Hehehehe... I'm digging this already."
"In that case, so am I."
"Mmmmmhmmm..."
The two leaned against each other in silence.
At last, Rainbow gulped and spoke in a quiet voice. "Roarke... whatever this glowy-light business is... I-I'm going to get to the bottom of it, okay?"
"I believe you." Roarke's lenses retracted. "Why so emphatic about it?"
"I mean... in case you're... in case you were feeling—"
Roarke raised a hoof and rested it around the back of Rainbow's neck. "Not any longer."
Rainbow stared at her with glossy eyes. She smiled sweetly, murmuring "Good" in a breathless tone. She made herself weightless, allowing Roarke to draw her closer so that she nestled herself tightly against the nape of Roarke's neck.
Which gave the metal mare the opportunity she needed to exhale heavily through her nostrils, bestowing the bulkheads behind Rainbow Dash a tight, pale expression.
HHHHHHNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGG
YAY! new word to decode and this one looks pretty tough I can't really find any parts of it so far. (some that are close though) Might be a different language mixed in again.
And now we get to figure out what the bloody hell yaefaerda means, woohoo!
ahh, they're so cuuute together! :A:
If we just got our new book title I am going to kill myself. How in the Spark do you pronounce that?
Someone forgot the stationary supplies.
As for Props saying about Zaid, looks like someone might need,
<sunglasses>
lotion for the motion.
Hey, no longer on latrine duty. A Promotion.
Yay for new word! Now, how is is pronounced and what the heck does it mean?
Yaefaerda, eh? I dig it.
Well, until we're told otherwise, I'll be pronouncing it like this.
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Yay-Fair-Da. I find myself rolling the R a little.
The double entendres! Oh god, the double entendres!!
Oooohhhh. I really like this one. Rolls of the tongue it does. Pretty, it is.
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I think Rainbow having a child is a bit too far-fetched for the time being.
Props? Probably already happening.
RIP in piece Yvonne
This has been your Spectacular Swan Song Shipping Summary™.
Okay, seriously, you guys, it's getting to the point where you should automatically just go to her for this shit. Between her freaky prophetic knowledge, becoming RD's emotional coach for a day, throwing fucking boulders, and dropping double entendres, I'm entirely convinced she is the most underestimated member of the entire crew, and they are gonna get a bigass wake up call.
She is going to save the motherfucking world.
…Shit. I get the feeling Roarke is a little less secure about their long-term prospects, all of a sudden.
1)WE HAVE THE NEW WORD! WOO!
2)
3)
---Don't worry, Roarke. Its not as if your new marefriend is likely to die within a year.
M'pony.
We're now officially out of vowels and kinda-sometimes-vowels. Who wants to place bets on what the seventh word will start with?
Yaefaerda
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Yay-Fay-Urr-Dah
At least to me,sounding it out based on the word Fae.
Ooh, a new word! This pleases the linguist in me.
The best lead I can find so far is the Old Norse word yfir, meaning "across". Considering the Grand Choke and the inevitable passage to the other side of the world, this seems like a good candidate. There's also the word dá, apparently referring to a trance or dormant state. I dunno. It bears more looking into.
In any case, I feel the old "Rainbow will die and pass the torch along" theory niggling the back of my mind again. The more I think about the symbol, the more I wonder if that's what it's pointing to. I wonder if the parentheses represent people, and the dots represent the spark being passed. As in:
:) (
) --> : --> (
) (:
Eh, it's late. I'm probably completely wrong.
And there's some ominous things with Roarke in this chapter. That final line, as well as Ebon's actions at one point (picking up on some emotional vibe, I assume).
According to my research Erda (Yaefaerda) is a Norse earth goddess who lives in a cave next to the roots of yggdrasil. And I feel like it does actually have something to do with that. I just swear that the symbol totally looks a tree so I think it would actually make sense.
As for the rest of the word I can't find anything.
Yes, I do certainly believe you do.
Next time on AMC's The Trotting Dead...
"Wat."
My reaction to most things, all the time.
YAEFAERDA. Spiffy. Why does it only appear after easthorses and iron-mares have sex?
Yaefaerda, eh? Well, at least we now know half of the symbols.
I can hardly believe how cute Rainbow and Roarke are here.
This one has me stumped, there seems to be a few things that it could be, but none make complete sense together. I think 4912971 is right, part of it is yfir which means: above,over,at;across,upon. However outside of that I've got nothing concrete to work with.
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Didn't you know that magnetized iron can be used to make a compass, which you can use to find your bearings, to re-orient yourself? And that the Orient is the east?
And that you magnetize a piece of iron by rubbing it on a magnet, or by exposing it to lightning while it is hot?
4912871 My guess is that we're all the way back to A. Either that or it'll be Yggdrasil, and we go backwards through the vowels as we head towards the Midnight Armory.
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I think it's Yay-fair-dah, like a Welsh/Scots pronunciation of "faer"
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I think these both have merit. "Across" and something about the goddess in the cave in the base of Yggdrasil. Like, traveling to meet someone at the origin of life/austraeoh. Couple that with the seemingly random reference to finding "the tree of life"(Yggdrasil = world tree, but also commonly known for giving life) and we're onto something.
4913164 It could be Yah-Far-Dah. The AE ligature was traditionally pronounced as an ah sound.
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Plus that'd be the end of her journey right there.
Aw, it's all so cwute.
And yeah... I got nothing. Pronounciation could be just about anything until we don't know where one word ends and the other begins and Skirts keeps leaving out all the special characters. I vote for pronouncing it 'Bob'.
huh, so not Yvonne then.
I second Bob as the official pronunciation. And good to see there is no needless tension on Rainboarke.
I like this new word. Yaefaerda. For some reason is sounds like the end, but also the beginning. Or maybe I'm just not separating it from this story enough mentally. Either way, I like it.
So, the next story is not "Ymplodincoln" then.
If the name actually comes from a norse goddess, then the story could involve some god-like character, like another Divine or an alicorn. That would fit the paralell I stablished long ago between this saga and the Sanctuary arc of Saint Seiya, with each story being equivalent to one of the temples, in the same order:
- Austraeoh, like the Aries temple, was just the introduction, showing us a little of what is to come, and that our hero is not ready for the rest of the journey with their current tools and skills.
-Eljunbyro, like the Taurus temple. it's when things finally start moving. The hero's companions show a little of what they are capable of. We meet adversaries with great destructive power.
-Innavedr. like the Gemini temple, involves the party being split, each group not knowing the fate of the others or considering them dead, and the mind playing a lot of tricks. Oh, and somehow the blind character overcomes the obstacles without as many problems as the others, but that's just me looking for more comparisons, as it was around the beginning of this story that I saw the parallels.
-Ordsjot, like the Cancer temple, was oh, goddess, so dark, with so much death, and we even had a vision of Yomotsu Hirasaka.
-Urohringr, like the Leo temple, had heroic sacrifices, redemption, and characters that we could have expected to find back before the story began, but not anymore at this point so far in the story, in this case being the normal pegasi having normal lives.
Now I am just speculating how all would be if we follow the paralells.
-Yaefarda, then, would be like the Virgo temple. We would find a seemingly unpassable obstacle, of somewhat divine quality. Our heroes would not be capable of pass this obstacle, but an unexpected ally will appear and face the threat, seemingly both perishing. Our adversary would know about the mission of our heroes, but would have reasons to try and stop them anyways. This could mean we'll finally face Chrysalis. Readers would not be happy if Axan showed up again during dificult times and killed Chrysalis, but they would be OK with both fighting each other with all their power (even if leaving our protagonists as just background characters) and then seeminlgy dying together.
7th story: Libra: The conflict of the previous story would extend to around half of this story, so it's particular arc would be a short one, about generosity or kindness, and the efforts to restore one of the party members to well-being.
8th story: Scorpio: Don't really know, it was not my favorite temple. Maybe the party will show they can take a lot of hurt, and then the adversary will let them go.
9th story: Saggitarius: No particular big bad in this arc. Conflict could come from the characters' qualities being put to test (think the FiM pilot). It would be about legacy. Our heroes would know about how it all started, and how it led to Austraeoh's journey. It will remove all the doubts the party has about continuing.
10th story: Capricorn: It could go different ways, depending of if we follow the manga or the anime of Saint Seiya. Either we redeem a villain, or we show a fanatic the error of their ways. Either way, this is the point when the party becomes a dwindling party, starting with the strongest members.
11th story: Aquarius: A previous opponent will reveal that they just wanted to stop the heroes to keep them from having to face the horror to come. As they wanted to keep going anyways, this time they will test the heroes themselves. We'll lose more party members.
12th story: Piscis: The less combative members of our party are the only ones left, and it's their turn to show their brawn, staying behind fighting the villain/obstacle to give the hero a chance to go alone after the final big bad. When we know the big bad, we'll notice that we were getting clues of their identity since at least the third story.
Phew. Now that I said all of that, nothing similar will happen.
Oh boy! This just too good!
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I've just gotten so used to my update emails saying
OUrohringr!I'm sure this is my first comment made on this series, but my thoughts on this WHOLE series so far:
This is going to be one of those stories, the ones where I, no matter the length, am going to have to re-read, because I can't let go of the fact that it's over.
fuck im autistic
4912980 to clarify, thats another way to say erda
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With a cute little Diamond Puppy sidekick.
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I assumed we'd start using the letters in inverse order. So, the seventh one would also start with a Y, and the twelfth one would start with an A again, to somehow show that the journey is taking RD back to the beggining, albeit on the other side of the world.
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Either that, or IC will rewrite everything just to spite you.
Can't tell if I'm the only one who got this or the only one who found it worth mentioning.
I'm putting my money on backtracking vowels, if we're sticking to vowels. To the ends of the Earth and back again and all that.
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My native language (Estonian) actually has a diphtong "ae" ("ah" followed by "eh"). (The Welsh one is pronounced "ai"). I'd pronounce the word more or less like this:
https://translate.google.com/#fi/en/jae%20faer%20da
I'm a bit disappointed the Y seems to be a consonant here, breaking the vowels pattern. Of course, you could try to pronounce the Y as a vowel:
https://translate.google.com/#fi/en/ya%20efaerda
I was hoping it'd be Yugoslavia :(
Finally managed to get caught up on the past 50 chapters or so.
Yeahfart-a what now?
To the Grand Choke!
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Riddle me this, then-
Why would Roarke use iron armor when steel or carbon-fiber-like, non-magnetic, materials are stronger, more durable, and lighter?
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I love the Journey ost.
What the name means
Yaefaerda. We have no clue as to what it means. I've got a few guesses though.
Guess One: Fa can mean a number of things, from suffer, to struggle, or accomplish. Er means Who. Dao can mean courage or energy. So one meaning that's a bit of a stretch is Courage who struggles. I doubt that though :P
Guess Two: æðra means fear or despair. And it's actually pronounced "Aethra" which could be simplified to "Aefra." That's pretty close to part of Yaefaerda. Not sure what the rest would be, so I'm going to go with guess three or four.
Guess Three (Likely): æ by itself means always. Færa means less. It could symbolize how Rainbow is always growing less as she moves on.
Guess Four (Likely): As before, æ by itself means always. Fáð means color (also pronounced Faeth (Fay-eth). Very similar to Faith ). But you know how fáð can also be written? Fada. But even throwing that aside, I am about 50% certain that Fáðda would add to the word and make it colorful. And then adding the Y and such to make it all flow.
So we basically have one meaning that is Always Less, and one that is Always Colorful. Two polar opposites of each other, and I'm not sure which. Even with the evidence, I'm not sure which way I fall. You all decide. I swear IC is Tolkien reincarnated.
One, who does your voodoo, bitch?
Two, Y is a vowel in my book now.
Three, did RD just sidestep all teasing? No... noooooooooo. Why?
Looks like we got our next title.
Since the ringworld is segmented or split into pieces, would the symbol represent the end of the current ring segment and the beginning of another?
I unfortunately was not born part linguist.
4915452 iunno. You're the one what called her an iron mare...
Carbon fibre, and Kevlar are both probably not available, and steel is just as magnetizable as iron in most cases. Not to mention not all that expensive and really quite effective.
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There seems to have been a miscommunication. I was trying (though probably poorly, I messed up somehow, I'm sure) to say that she would NOT be iron, and probably not magnetic in the slightest, because iron, nickel, and cobalt are the only elements that can be magnetic. Steel can be magnetized, but it isnt by default and would be difficult to do by accident.
Rainbow Dash's Yaefaerda had nothing to do with being magnetized by Roarke.