Darkover:

Purity Test

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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.

Java Script by Cormel Rockraven

 

Answer to these question and discover how much you've been contaminated by the planet with the Red Sun. No cheating allowed! <g>

IMPORTANT!! You should wait until the page is completely loaded before starting to answer, or you'll get an error alert from the Java Script.

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

68. <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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