Darkover: Purity Test Also available in Italian
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Questions collected by the members of the Darkover-Lovers mailing list, and more particulary by: Leisha n'ha Ursula, Mabry Aldaran, Piedro Aillard Syrtis, Atalanta n'ha Liriel, Annelys Aillard, Valeria n'ha Lucilla, Marjo Ridenow-MacAran, Daimary MacAran, Regis di Asturien, Conn MacAran, Jaelle n'ha Gilla, Gabe Alton, Anya Leynier, Valentina n'ha Doria, Myria Lanart, Diego Storn.
Answer to these question and discover how much you've been contaminated by the planet with the Red Sun. No cheating allowed! <g>
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KNOWING DARKOVER NOVELS
1. Have you ever read the entire series?
YesNo
2. In a row?
YesNo
3. In chronological order?
YesNo
4. And could figure out where the anthologies should go?
YesNo
5. Can you say by heart all titles of the Darkover-Novels in chronological order?
YesNo
6. In publication order?
YesNo
7. How about the anthology stories?
YesNo
8. Do you reread the entire series once a year?
YesNo
9. Once a month?
YesNo
10. More?
YesNo
11. Can you think of at least five inconsistencies in the Darkovan timeline?
YesNo
12. Ten?
YesNo
13. More?
YesNo
14. How about other inconsistencies, e.g. concerning family relationships?
YesNo
15. Do you know the names of at least five members of the crew of the first Terran ship that landed on Darkover?
YesNo
16. What about the crew members of the Minnesota starship? (the one described in "Rediscovery")
YesNo
Can you give detailed descriptions of:
17. A chieri?
YesNo
18. A trailman?
YesNo
19. A cralmac?
YesNo
20. A catman?
YesNo
21. A Ya-man?
YesNo
22. A kyrri?
YesNo
23. Do you now who/what a riyachiya and a ri'chiyu are?
YesNo
24. Do you know the name and the colours of all the four moons?
YesNo
25. Do you know the name and the traditional colours of all the seven Domains?
YesNo
26. Do you know what are the Gifts of all the great Comyn families? [And how for Zandru's Ninth Hell did you figure out what the Aillard gift is?? ;) ]
YesNo
27. Do you know which is the Leynier gift?
YesNo
28. Do you know how Naotalba is traditionally portrayed?
YesNo
29. Do you know who Naotalba was/is?
YesNo
30. Have you ever tried to figure out which ones of the short stories could or should be canon?
YesNo
31. Have you ever tried to explain the inconsistencies in the Darkover novels and/or short stories?
YesNo
32. And succeeded?
YesNo
33. Have you ever tried to figure out the origins of the Darkovan names (personal, family or place names) and other words?
YesNo
34. Have you reached any satisfying conclusion about them?
YesNo
35. Have you ever tried to make out different forms of an existing Darkovan word, when only one form is presented in the canon works?
YesNo
36. Have you been in a bad mood all the time while reading The World Wreckers?
YesNo
37. Do you cry at the end of Sharra's Exile?
YesNo
38. How about Heritage of Hastur?
YesNo
39. Have you ever bought books of authors just because these people have written a short story in the anthologies?
YesNo
Do you know...
40. ...what's the best kind of material to wrap a matrix?
YesNo
41. ...the difference between a sword and a Renuciate's knife?
YesNo
42. ...the name of Darkover typical "coffee"?
YesNo
43. ...the taste of this sort of "coffee"?
YesNo
44. Have you ever mixed coffee and hot chocolate together, thinking that you miss the taste of jaco?
YesNo
45. ...more than five darkovan sayings?
YesNo
46. ...what's the Compact?
YesNo
47. ...and who was its author?
YesNo
48. ...the name of at least four Towers?
YesNo
49. ...what's the main language currently spoken on Darkover?
YesNo
50. What about the second one?
YesNo
51. Can you quote at least three lines of the lyrics of the song about the outlaw brother (you know, the one that's not supposed to sang when brothers and sisters are in the same room)?
YesNo
52. Have you searched The Digital Tradition (
http://www.mudcat.org/folksearch.html ) for folksongs with similar lyrics?YesNo
53. Bought an album because it had one of the versions?
YesNo
54. Refused to sing it while your brother was in the room?
YesNo
KNOWING DARKOVAN TRADITIONS
55.< for women>
Do you blush when your hair is put up?55.<for men>
Have you ever exchanged a "bredhini" vow with a male friend of yours?YesNo
56.<for women>
Do you feel insulted when a man you don't know well looks you directly in the eyes?56. <for men>
Have you ever been detained by the authorities for wearing a sword in public?YesNo
57. Do you think that guns are against the Compact?
YesNo
58. Do you know what sharing a meal, a fireside, and a bed actually means?
YesNo
59. Do you get shivers when the name Sharra is mentioned?
YesNo
60. Do you routinely refer to your significant other as "my freemate", even when speaking with non-"Darkovans"?
YesNo
61. Have you ever caught yourself addressing someone as "vai dom" or "mestra?"
YesNo
62. Do you detest sandals or people who wear them?
YesNo
63. Have you ever thought that blond people are barbarous?
YesNo
64. Have you ever thought that smoking males are somehow weird?
YesNo
65. But smoking females are not?
YesNo
66. When you meet a tall red-headed stranger on the street, do you have an impulse to cry out "Tallo!"?
YesNo
DARKOVER IN YOUR REAL LIFE
67. Do you feel a day is lost when you don't read anything about Darkover?
YesNo
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8. <for men & women><G> Do you take a cold shower every time someone mentions Dyan Ardais?YesNo
69. Do you consider yourself a member of a domain? a lord or lady of a domain? a member of a guildhouse? a member of a tower?
YesNo
70. Do you use expressions like "all the smiths in Zandru's forge cannot mend a broken egg" and "we'll fly that falcon when her pinions are grown" in everyday speech?
YesNo
71. Do you ever wear/have you ever worn Darkovan clothing?
YesNo
72. Do you ever search/have you ever searched the shops for anything that could look like Darkovan clothing?
YesNo
73. Do you bow to anyone with red hair?
YesNo
74. Do you sneer at people with brown "animal eyes"?
YesNo
75. Do you complain about "this Terran sun" hurting your eyes?
YesNo
76. Do you have red tinted windows in your house?
YesNo
77. Have you ever written a play, story, or poem about Darkover?
YesNo
78. More than one?
YesNo
79. Do you rub incense into your clothes to smell Darkovan?
YesNo
80. Have you ever tried to cook something 'typical Darkovan'? (In that case, could I get the recipe?)
YesNo
81.Do you believe you have laran in real life?
YesNo
82. Do you ever think to "strengthen your barrier" when you have something to hide, or you are pretending?
YesNo
83. Do you ever tell yourself "I've got the Touch" each time a kitten purrs to you?
YesNo
84. Do you call any distant relative "cousin"?
YesNo
85. When disgusted with someone, do you refer to him or her as a "filthy Terranan"?
YesNo
Have you ever...
86. ...Made a Darkover website?
YesNo
87. ...Dyed your hair red in order to 'look more Darkovan', or persuaded a significant other to do so?
YesNo
88. ...Purchased or made a butterfly hairclasp?
YesNo
89. ...decided that you _had_ to learn to embroider, just to have the butterflies on your tunic ... or the bunchies of cherries on your quilt?
YesNo
90. Do you prefer copper jewellery to gold one?
YesNo
91. Have you ever succeeded in convincing someone in presenting you a piece of copper jewellery?
YesNo
92. Have you ever sworn by Aldones or any of the Darkovan deities?
YesNo
93. Have you ever been to the Armida Grand Council?
YesNo
94. Do you call your loved one "Bredu" (if you're female) or "Breda" if you're male)?
YesNo
95. <for men>
Do you usually gift your significant other and/or female relatives with fruit & flowers baskets, at the Solstice Festival?YesNo
95. <for women>
Have you ever received such a basket from your significant other and/or male relatives (or convinced them to give you one?) at the Solstice Festival?YesNo
96. Have you ever felt the need to refer your mind troubles to your Keeper?
YesNo
97. Have you ever thought that the normal hormonal troubles, you've undergone in your teenage years, were actually treshold sickness?
YesNo
98. Do you belong to any Darkover fan club or an equivalent thereof?
YesNo
99. Do you select the next book you read by checking for if there is a review by MZB?
YesNo
100. Have you written a fan letter to MZB?
YesNo
101. More than one?
YesNo
102. Have you ever stalked MZB?
YesNo
103. During a thunder storm, do you ever suspect that someone's using the Rockraven Gift?
YesNo
104. Have you ever had a dog named Jewel?
YesNo
105. Have you ever hunted with falcons? (Or desperately wished to do so?)
YesNo
106. Do you ever swear by the Holy Bearer of Burdens?
YesNo
107. Do you wear or have you ever worn the medal of St. Christopher?
YesNo
108. And associate(d) it with the St. Christopher of Centaurus rather than with the Terran saint of the same name?
YesNo
109. Do you refer to certain early blossoming blue flowers as kireseth flowers?
YesNo
110. If you have children, have you ever seriously considered naming any of them after the characters of the Darkover novels or short stories?
YesNo
111. And actually named your children after them?
YesNo
112. Have you ever tried to convince your friends to name their children after said characters?
YesNo
113. And succeeded?
YesNo
114. <for women>
Have you ever considered becoming a Renunciate?YesNo
115. <for women>
And done so?YesNo
116. <for women>
Legally?YesNo
114. <for men>
Have you ever considered joining the Guards?YesNo
115. <for men>
Do you feel guilty for not having served as a cadet?YesNo
116. <for men>
Do you feel that your Military Service would be enough to soothe your conscience?YesNo
117. Have you ever thought of wearing bracelets instead of wedding rings?
YesNo
118. Do you feel like the day should have 28 hours?
YesNo
119. Do you read the
Darkovan Inquirer regularly?YesNo
120. Have you ever been written about in the Darkovan Inquirer
?YesNo
121. Have you ever submitted material to the
Darkovan Inquirer?YesNo
122. Do you find yourself thinking "This is Darkovan summer" on a sunny winter's day?
YesNo
123. Do you believe in Cherilly's Law?
YesNo
124. When listening to Celtic music, you think it sounds JUST like something Gawin Delleray would write?
YesNo
125. Do you play the ryll (or a Celtic lap harp)?
YesNo
126. Have you ever wished you had six fingers, in order to play better darkovan ballads (difficult chords, you know! <g>)
YesNo
127. Have you ever referred to opera singers and such as "lyric performers"?
YesNo
128. Have you ever thought of moving to Alaska/Orkney Islands/Iceland because of the darkovan-like climate?
YesNo
129. ...and done so?
YesNo
130. Do you want to go to (or have ever gone to ) Scotland in order to visit the isle of Skye and say "this is the place where first Darkovans came from" ?
YesNo
131. Have you ever considered visiting the Basque Country to see whether some of the Basques actually have six fingers?
YesNo
132. And actually visited said area?
YesNo
133. And pestered people by demanding to see their hands?
YesNo
134. Do you ever look up to the starry night sky and try to figure out where Cottmanīs Star might lie?
YesNo
135. Have you ever heard or read about the Mayas worshipping extraterrestrials and wondered if they might have been chieri?
YesNo
136. Have you ever read or watched on TV some story dealing with powers of the mind and thought that was stolen from MZB?
YesNo
137. Do you usually try to find analogies between Darkovan city, mountains, rivers, castles etc. and the ones on Earth?
YesNo
138. Do you ever dream you're on Darkover?
YesNo
139. Have you ever bought red glasses just to pretend you were on Darkover?
YesNo
140. Have you ever tried to convince people to become Darkover fans?<
YesNo
141. And succeeded with more than two people?
YesNo
142. Have you ever tried to draw a map of Darkover?
YesNo
143. Do you refer to your computer as matrix screen, and to Internet/Email as relays?
YesNo
144. Do you have a shrine dedicated to a darkovan god/goddess in your household?
YesNo
OWNING DARKOVER
145. Do you cut down your usual spending for movies/clothing/food/car/whatever to save money for buying the hardcover edition of the forthcoming Darkover novel?
YesNo
146. Say you see a complete stranger in the train/at the bus stop/in your doctors waiting-room reading a Darkover-novel. Would you start talking to her/him?
YesNo
147. Have you already done so?
YesNo
148. ...and are now engaged to said person?
YesNo
149. Do you wear blue semiprecious stones in leather or silk bags and insist that they are matrix stones?
YesNo
Do you...
150. ...Have all the lyrics to 'Horsetamer's Daughter' (available in MP3 format at
http://www.prometheus-music.com/eli/virtual.html, so go get it!) memorized?YesNo
151. ...Own a copy of CONSENTING ADULTS OF DARKOVER?
YesNo
152. ...Own a copy of THE DARKOVER CONCORDANCE?
YesNo
153. Do you own multiple copies of any of the Darkover novels?
YesNo
154. More than two of one particular novel?
YesNo
You answered "yes" to questions.
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