SUMMER

Angkar: Wet season. Precipitation is common during the late afternoon and evening hours. Vegetation grows significantly during the summer, but flooding is a danger due to the monsoons that ravage the country. The rainforest sees evenly distributed rainfall throughout the season.

Ashoka: Desert: Extremely hot and dry. Violent, heavy downpours following long dryspells. Jungle: Hot and humid with frequent, violent rainstorms.

Morrim: Relatively hot and dry, but with a chance of thunderstorms from time to time. The heat may cause forest fires.

Soto: Hot and humid, tree cover is dense while ground growth is restricted. Thunderstorms see the most amount of rainfall during the season, and it can be very windy. On occasion, there are flash floods that can destroy homes and farms built on flood plains.

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March 30th, 2018 As you might have noticed, Elenlond has changed hands and is now under new management! If you have any questions, please direct them to DaringRaven! As for the rest of the announcements, including a season change, you can find them over here at the following link!

January 16, 2018 As you might have noticed, Elenlond has a new skin, all thanks to Mel! Don't forget to check out the new OTMs as well!

December 2, 2017 Winter has settled on Elenlond, bringing sleep for some and new life for others.

September 26, 2017 With the belated arrival of autumn come some interesting developments: new OTMs, a Town Crier and the release of the Elly Awards winners!

July 14, 2017 After a bit of forum clean-up, Elly Awards season has arrived! Head on over to make your nominations!

May 31, 2017 Summer has arrived and so has activity check! That's not all though – we also have some new OTMs for you and some staff changes!


WHAT IS ELENLOND?

Elenlond is an original free-form medieval fantasy RPG set on the continent of Soare and the Scattered Isles, which are located to the south in the Sea of Diverging Waters. The four chief nations of the western side of the world—Ashoka in northern Soare, Soto in western Soare, Morrim in eastern Soare, and Angkar, the largest of the Scattered Isles—continue to experience growth and prosperity since the fall of the Mianorite gods, although power struggles within the countries—or outside of them—continue to ensue.


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    Soto: The Sotoans have defeated the fey and liberated themselves from Méadaigh’s oppression! Preliminary efforts have been made at rebuilding the city of Madrid, which had been captured at the beginning of the war. However, the Sotoans are hindered from recovery famine. Méadaigh’s magic caused summer to persist in the Erth’netora Forest through the winter. Her power has been withdrawn and the plants die as if preparing for winter – even though it is now summer. The Sotoans must sustain off what food they can get, what creatures they can kill and what can be imported into the city from Morrim and Angkar.

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    Topic Started: Oct 19 2005, 03:38 PM (220 Views)
    Kestrel Sumner
    And then she was gone, her hips swinging as the knives jostled her thighs, passing by guards with her head held high, a haughty smile upon her lips.

    Warning: RANT. May contain very STRONG language. Do NOT come to me about how I've hurt your precious mind because I WARNED you.


    You know... I honestly dislike helping people. I really do. On most occasions, I don't like doing it unless these people are really good friends of mine because, more often than not, I'm contradicted because people are too fricken pompous to admit their faults.

    Recently, on another site, I was given the Rping classes because I am, apparently, among the most talented writers on there. Great, fine, fun, w00t. It's all good. Well, I take over for the one girl and I'm working with this guy and he does a post. This is the final stage of the entire ordeal, so I figure, 'Hey, this is like a final exam... Which means that if there are errors, it is my duty to show him where they are and to help him eliminate them'. Yeah... As if that would ever happen without some sort of argument/complaint, whatever the hell you want to call it.

    He posts, and it basically says the following: I'm picky about what people write, he doesn't put commas where they belong because his teachers don't know how to teach them and he reads through his posts and often forgets to pluralize words.

    Now, before there's any 'You're not perfect' crap, I ALREADY KNOW. Yes, I am probably one of the most imperfect perfectionists out there. When I write (by hand, especially) I leave out entire halves of sentences because I pause to think and then just start a whole new sentence that follows the last one. I forget words, I mispell words, I write wonky sentences. I have never said that I am perfect. And why would I want to be? To be perfect is to be inhuman.

    Well... I am still like WTF? You asked for these classes and yet you are going to snap at me for trying to help you? If you think you're such a big fancy writer, go and do a perfect post and then we'll see. If you don't think you need the damn classes, then don't take them. I'm only taking over half way through the lesson, and I haven't the slighest flipping clue how I'm supposed to go about everything, so it's just trial-and-fricking-error. So DON'T bitch at me. If you were so 'great' then you'd be teaching the classes, not me, but since you're not... Get off what you believe to be your high and mighty throne, shut up, and listen to what I have to say before you immediately contradict me and assume that I am completely and utterly wrong.

    The last time I ranted about grammar I had half of Mianor spazzing at me, hence why I have never done one again. I put all of the sarcasm and bitterness into that seven page rant as I could because I was so frustrated with how two people (Cannon and Zan if you did not already know) were writing, and yet everyone else spazzed at me. Is there not something wrong with that picture, or am I just the insane weirdo in the corner? I think not. I do not usually vocalize how I feel about people's writing. If there's a mistake I've trained myself to mentally correct it and be on my way. When I am supposed to be fixing mistakes, I take a little more care in finding them. And that's what I did, and if he - whom is two years youngerthan I and who lacks two years more of experience - thinks that he is right, he's living a fallacy.

    This isn't the only time I've tried to help and been told I'm wrong. It happens at school a lot with the group of people I work with in Bio, and it annoys me to no end. And I've only been incorrect a handful of times, which is better than what they can say for themselves. I've also tried to help my brother and been told I'm wrong, so I give up. I'm sick of this crap. If you don't want my help, DO NOT fricking ask for it.

    End rant.


    Sorry >.>; I am just... frustrated at this particular moment in time.
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    People can be amazingly stupid about being helped. They want to be helped, yet they want to be helped in such a way that they somehow come out right even when they're obviously wrong. Teaching is a tough issue, because you have to both teach your subjects without lying, and keep your student from being overly angry. Sadly, it's much more difficult when you're perceived to be no more than some silly teenager someone happens to know online, and they believe you are more likely to be wrong.

    I know well how helping people can be very unrewarding when they ask for help and then refuse to take it. Despite it being true that the student should only take what they want from the teacher, the student has to be at least somewhat open with the teacher in order to get anything... especially in terms of grammar. You're better than grammar nazis, and plurals and commas are things that people do need to learn.

    My theory: if someone is wrong, there is a reason why they're wrong, and before people go shouting about saying how someone is wrong they better have some sort of reason for it. Sounds like you've got a lot of mindless bitchiness thrown at you, Shadow.

    *hugs* Take pleasure in knowing that you're talented enough to be asked for help, even if others don't appreciate the idea.
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