User:ShadowWolf/The Hunter - Revision history

ShadowWolf: minor markup fix for the new skin

2011-08-02T16:46:28Z

minor markup fix for the new skin

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	{{Title\|name=Xanadu: The Hunter\|author=ShadowWolf}}		{{Title\|name=Xanadu: The Hunter\|author=ShadowWolf}}
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	{{Universe\|Xanadu}}{{WIP}}{{hiatus}}{{float tag\|text=Because of the nature of mythology I am including links to Wikipedia articles about certain pieces of terminology. So if you get confused by a term–or just don't understand one–just follow the link and you should find some reference material.\|text-background=#eee}}		{{Universe\|Xanadu}}{{WIP}}{{hiatus}}{{float tag\|text=Because of the nature of mythology I am including links to Wikipedia articles about certain pieces of terminology. So if you get confused by a term–or just don't understand one–just follow the link and you should find some reference material.\|text-background=#eee}}
	Coming up with a costume had been difficult. I'd heard about the prizes for best costume that were up for grabs at Xanadu and knew that the competition was going to be stiff – so the choice of costume was going to be as important as the costume itself. Call me a perfectionist, if you want, but when I decide to do something I have to have it all planned out beforehand and then its an obsession, pushing for the perfect combination of all the parts — and when its a costume I don't stop at making the costume, I build the personality, backstory and even create a voice for the character.		Coming up with a costume had been difficult. I'd heard about the prizes for best costume that were up for grabs at Xanadu and knew that the competition was going to be stiff – so the choice of costume was going to be as important as the costume itself. Call me a perfectionist, if you want, but when I decide to do something I have to have it all planned out beforehand and then its an obsession, pushing for the perfect combination of all the parts — and when its a costume I don't stop at making the costume, I build the personality, backstory and even create a voice for the character.
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ShadowWolf: add fiction semantic tag - would add {{TF tag}} but no TF has occurred yet in this story

2009-02-14T00:44:09Z

add fiction semantic tag - would add {{TF tag}} but no TF has occurred yet in this story

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	{{DEFAULTSORT:Hunter, The}}		{{DEFAULTSORT:Hunter, The}}
			{{fiction}}

ShadowWolf: add universe template

2009-02-13T00:08:28Z

add universe template

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	[[Category:Xanadu]] [[Category:ShadowWolf]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Hunter, The}}		[[Category:Xanadu]] [[Category:ShadowWolf]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Hunter, The}}
	{{Title\|name=Xanadu: The Hunter\|author=ShadowWolf}}		{{Title\|name=Xanadu: The Hunter\|author=ShadowWolf}}
	{{WIP}}{{hiatus}}{{float tag\|text=Because of the nature of mythology I am including links to Wikipedia articles about certain pieces of terminology. So if you get confused by a term–or just don't understand one–just follow the link and you should find some reference material.\|text-background=#eee}}		{{Universe\|Xanadu}}{{WIP}}{{hiatus}}{{float tag\|text=Because of the nature of mythology I am including links to Wikipedia articles about certain pieces of terminology. So if you get confused by a term–or just don't understand one–just follow the link and you should find some reference material.\|text-background=#eee}}
	Coming up with a costume had been difficult. I'd heard about the prizes for best costume that were up for grabs at Xanadu and knew that the competition was going to be stiff – so the choice of costume was going to be as important as the costume itself. Call me a perfectionist, if you want, but when I decide to do something I have to have it all planned out beforehand and then its an obsession, pushing for the perfect combination of all the parts — and when its a costume I don't stop at making the costume, I build the personality, backstory and even create a voice for the character.		Coming up with a costume had been difficult. I'd heard about the prizes for best costume that were up for grabs at Xanadu and knew that the competition was going to be stiff – so the choice of costume was going to be as important as the costume itself. Call me a perfectionist, if you want, but when I decide to do something I have to have it all planned out beforehand and then its an obsession, pushing for the perfect combination of all the parts — and when its a costume I don't stop at making the costume, I build the personality, backstory and even create a voice for the character.

ShadowWolf: another test

2009-02-12T22:26:46Z

another test

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	[[Category:Xanadu]] [[Category:ShadowWolf]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Hunter, The}}		[[Category:Xanadu]] [[Category:ShadowWolf]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Hunter, The}}
	~~{{Author tag\|ShadowWolf}}~~
	{{Title\|name=Xanadu: The Hunter\|author=ShadowWolf}}		{{Title\|name=Xanadu: The Hunter\|author=ShadowWolf}}
	{{WIP}}{{hiatus}}{{float tag\|text=Because of the nature of mythology I am including links to Wikipedia articles about certain pieces of terminology. So if you get confused by a term–or just don't understand one–just follow the link and you should find some reference material.\|text-background=#eee}}		{{WIP}}{{hiatus}}{{float tag\|text=Because of the nature of mythology I am including links to Wikipedia articles about certain pieces of terminology. So if you get confused by a term–or just don't understand one–just follow the link and you should find some reference material.\|text-background=#eee}}

ShadowWolf: testing something...

2009-02-12T22:24:02Z

testing something...

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	[[Author~~::ShadoWolf~~\| ]]		{{Author tag\|ShadowWolf}}
	{{Title\|name=Xanadu: The Hunter\|author=ShadowWolf}}		{{Title\|name=Xanadu: The Hunter\|author=ShadowWolf}}
	{{WIP}}{{hiatus}}{{float tag\|text=Because of the nature of mythology I am including links to Wikipedia articles about certain pieces of terminology. So if you get confused by a term–or just don't understand one–just follow the link and you should find some reference material.\|text-background=#eee}}		{{WIP}}{{hiatus}}{{float tag\|text=Because of the nature of mythology I am including links to Wikipedia articles about certain pieces of terminology. So if you get confused by a term–or just don't understand one–just follow the link and you should find some reference material.\|text-background=#eee}}

ShadowWolf: testing something...

2009-02-12T22:21:47Z

testing something...

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			[[Author::ShadoWolf\| ]]
	{{Title\|name=Xanadu: The Hunter\|author=ShadowWolf}}		{{Title\|name=Xanadu: The Hunter\|author=ShadowWolf}}
	{{WIP}}{{hiatus}}{{float tag\|text=Because of the nature of mythology I am including links to Wikipedia articles about certain pieces of terminology. So if you get confused by a term–or just don't understand one–just follow the link and you should find some reference material.\|text-background=#eee}}		{{WIP}}{{hiatus}}{{float tag\|text=Because of the nature of mythology I am including links to Wikipedia articles about certain pieces of terminology. So if you get confused by a term–or just don't understand one–just follow the link and you should find some reference material.\|text-background=#eee}}

ShadowWolf: this bit just came to me... wish the Muse would be more forthcoming with stuff for this story.

2008-01-08T00:45:47Z

this bit just came to me... wish the Muse would be more forthcoming with stuff for this story.

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	I was going to do a variation on the myths, mixing them together, but taking the name and basic personality from the Celtic myths. I was going to be [[wikipedia:Herne the Hunter\|Herne the Hunter]]—mostly because that was a fixed name in the record and I had found more information about him than about the other versions of the myth. The head was going to be the hard part, but not that hard–Seelie and Unseelie generally appeared as human, just not completely so. Herne was a huge man, according to mythology, so it was going to be doubly hard on me. But the horned helmet, now that was going to be the key to making the costume believable.		I was going to do a variation on the myths, mixing them together, but taking the name and basic personality from the Celtic myths. I was going to be [[wikipedia:Herne the Hunter\|Herne the Hunter]]—mostly because that was a fixed name in the record and I had found more information about him than about the other versions of the myth. The head was going to be the hard part, but not that hard–Seelie and Unseelie generally appeared as human, just not completely so. Herne was a huge man, according to mythology, so it was going to be doubly hard on me. But the horned helmet, now that was going to be the key to making the costume believable.

			The whole crew donated time and money to design the armor. I was good, but from all reports Herne was more than seven feet tall–a real giant–where I was barely five foot six and that meant that the armor was going to have a lot of high-tech and low-tech solutions to provide more than an illusion of size. And as they argued over the benefits of linear-electric motors, pneumatic actuators and cable-pull systems I submerged myself in the Celtic cultures of ancient Europe. Their language, their beliefs and their religions were the focus of my research, since I'd already learned a lot about Herne himself. That meant that the information needed to fill in the full personality of the hunter was going to have to come from more esoterich sources.

			But all of that research was going to be worth it. While the costume itself was going to be as big of a modern marvel as we could make it, there was no way it would win the grand prize unless I could bring it to life with the character. Herne would walk the Earth once more through me, even if it was for a limited period of time.


	{{DEFAULTSORT:Hunter, The}}		{{DEFAULTSORT:Hunter, The}}

ShadowWolf: add a small note

2007-10-26T20:17:48Z

add a small note

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	{{Title\|name=Xanadu: The Hunter\|author=ShadowWolf}}		{{Title\|name=Xanadu: The Hunter\|author=ShadowWolf}}
	{{WIP}}{{hiatus}}		{{WIP}}{{hiatus}}{{float tag\|text=Because of the nature of mythology I am including links to Wikipedia articles about certain pieces of terminology. So if you get confused by a term–or just don't understand one–just follow the link and you should find some reference material.\|text-background=#eee}}
	Coming up with a costume had been difficult. I'd heard about the prizes for best costume that were up for grabs at Xanadu and knew that the competition was going to be stiff – so the choice of costume was going to be as important as the costume itself. Call me a perfectionist, if you want, but when I decide to do something I have to have it all planned out beforehand and then its an obsession, pushing for the perfect combination of all the parts — and when its a costume I don't stop at making the costume, I build the personality, backstory and even create a voice for the character.		Coming up with a costume had been difficult. I'd heard about the prizes for best costume that were up for grabs at Xanadu and knew that the competition was going to be stiff – so the choice of costume was going to be as important as the costume itself. Call me a perfectionist, if you want, but when I decide to do something I have to have it all planned out beforehand and then its an obsession, pushing for the perfect combination of all the parts — and when its a costume I don't stop at making the costume, I build the personality, backstory and even create a voice for the character.

ShadowWolf: /* The Character */ add a bit more

2007-10-26T20:12:30Z

The Character: add a bit more

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	===The Character===		===The Character===
	The character had to be perfect, because a large part of a costume working was playing the part. I'd seen costumes that were technically perfect lost in competition because the person wearing it wasn't in character. With so much money at stake I began studying the myths of the Great Hunt and it's leader in depth, finding that legends spread through the ancient world, from the Norse peoples—who viewed him as ''Odin''—to the Celtic peoples—who viewed him in a completely different light, with some myths making him the head of the Unseelie Court and others making him something of a free agent. What all myths agreed on, though, was that people joined the hunt, and if you could survive the night you'd be rich, but if you failed in some manner you were dead—or part of the hunt forever.		The character had to be perfect, because a large part of a costume working was playing the part. I'd seen costumes that were technically perfect lost in competition because the person wearing it wasn't in character. With so much money at stake I began studying the myths of the Great Hunt and it's leader in depth, finding that legends spread through the ancient world, from the Norse peoples—who viewed him as ''[[wikipedia:Odin\|Odin]]''—to the Celtic peoples—who viewed him in a completely different light, with some myths making him the head of the [[wikipedia:Unseelie Court\|Unseelie Court]] and others making him something of a free agent. What all myths agreed on, though, was that people joined the hunt, and if you could survive the night you'd be rich, but if you failed in some manner you were dead—or part of the hunt forever.


			I was going to do a variation on the myths, mixing them together, but taking the name and basic personality from the Celtic myths. I was going to be [[wikipedia:Herne the Hunter\|Herne the Hunter]]—mostly because that was a fixed name in the record and I had found more information about him than about the other versions of the myth. The head was going to be the hard part, but not that hard–Seelie and Unseelie generally appeared as human, just not completely so. Herne was a huge man, according to mythology, so it was going to be doubly hard on me. But the horned helmet, now that was going to be the key to making the costume believable.
	{{DEFAULTSORT:Hunter, The}}		{{DEFAULTSORT:Hunter, The}}

ShadowWolf: back on hiatus

2007-08-28T05:20:40Z

back on hiatus

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	{{Title\|name=Xanadu: The Hunter\|author=ShadowWolf}}		{{Title\|name=Xanadu: The Hunter\|author=ShadowWolf}}
	{{WIP}}		{{WIP}}{{hiatus}}
	Coming up with a costume had been difficult. I'd heard about the prizes for best costume that were up for grabs at Xanadu and knew that the competition was going to be stiff – so the choice of costume was going to be as important as the costume itself. Call me a perfectionist, if you want, but when I decide to do something I have to have it all planned out beforehand and then its an obsession, pushing for the perfect combination of all the parts — and when its a costume I don't stop at making the costume, I build the personality, backstory and even create a voice for the character.		Coming up with a costume had been difficult. I'd heard about the prizes for best costume that were up for grabs at Xanadu and knew that the competition was going to be stiff – so the choice of costume was going to be as important as the costume itself. Call me a perfectionist, if you want, but when I decide to do something I have to have it all planned out beforehand and then its an obsession, pushing for the perfect combination of all the parts — and when its a costume I don't stop at making the costume, I build the personality, backstory and even create a voice for the character.