Abode/Xanth

(From Xanth for Love: A Family Quest)


Jenny Elf - This young elfin girl is an elf from the World of Two Moons (also known as Abode, the setting for the independent black and white comicbook known as Elfquest). While chasing her orange cat, Sammy, who had heard her wish that she had a feather to tickle him with and had gone running off to find one, she and the cat inadvertently dropped through a rip in reality and ended up visiting Xanth. Now, unlike Xanth's elves, she has very pointed ears, four fingers, and is quite tall for an elf. That, and her vitality isn't tied into an Elf elm, so she's much more mobile than the average Xanth elf. Being an offworlder, the land of Xanth took her as being human, so she has a magical talent. This talent allows her to sing visions into existence for sharing.

Now, unlike her literary counterpart, what happens to her is different rom what we might have seen in Pier Anthony's Isle of View. She meets an older version of Che than what she would have and has a few misadventures with him (one including getting rescued from some danger by the Gap Dragon). Wondering what's up, she and Che (who's wondering what's wrong with Jenny but decides to only broach this question after meeting the Good Magician) decide to go visit the Good Magician Humphrey to gets some answers.

Once decided, they set off and meet a strange young man named Scott....and a young version of Che's mother, Chex!

Long story short, what was going on here was that the people from different periods in Xanthian time being thrown together.....and Xanth was in danger of destruction!

Scott is able to save Xanth, but this magical land will never be the same again.

During a discussion with several of her older "selves" she is struck by a psychic cry for help from her mother (who's been reincarnated as a Terra Prime elf). She begs onto a diplomatic envoy to Terra Prime and soon is reunited with her parents.

Having been reunited with her family and not having much in the way of roots in Xanth, she's decided to make her home here on Terra Prime.

Currently, is wondering why her eyesight has improved to the point where she no longer needs those glasses she'd gotten while in Xanth (she'd been born with bad eyesight). She's also beginning to see that her abilities she'd been born with back on Abode as an elf are getting stronger (and talents that only a few select descendants of Timmain are showing up in her). Seh'll even find her expected lifespan is now as long as those Abodian elfs who are non-Wolfriders (Wolfriders are mortal while the others are ageless). It has something to do with the fact that another elf named Rayek no longer can send, now has terrible eyesight, and a few other things.

Here is the problem. The elfin girl known as Jenny Elf is the last of her kind (her and the few analogs who've set down roots in Xanth), to be blunt. All of her tribe and her race, with one exception, had been reborn upon Terra Prime as that particular world's brand of elfkind. The only other elf of her species, a male named Rayek, was not in great shape (the magic that raised him from the dead hadn't raised him to a level of a miserable and relatively short reprieve). No continuation of her species were going to be coming from that corner because besides it not really being a very realistic means of species continuation (too small of gene pool base with only two), the....er..... Let us just say that even if Rayek felt like it....he cannot.....

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No, at some level something within her new all this. Her analog sisters back in Xanth had chosen to homestead there and due to a special condition within that odd, pun filled land, this wasn't really a problem (long story I won't go into here right now). The thing here is that the one known as Jenny Elf who'd come to Terra Prime was setting down roots there! This meant that something within her makeup was....well...in panic mode.

Wendy and Richard Pine, the creators of Elfquest, had made their elves have a genetic compulsion built within them that guaranteed the continuation of the species by producing special children when potential partners met at certain times. Richard Pini laughingly called it "How loud is your lizard?' when he talked of it in one article. Basically, somewhere in the "lizard" part of their brains was a compulsion to mate that lay dormant until that special someone came. When the time was right, the unsuspecting elves would look into the others eyes and the trap is sprung. The event is called "Eye meets Eye " (marking a somewhat similar happening within Dragon society with similar results), but instead of instant love with the other....it was more like a need that soon becomes VERY distracting....as it were. If denied, it could even kill!

Well, that compulsion isn't quiet here with Jenny Elf, but it just shows you that a survival mechanism comes into play with Elfquest elves (which Jenny Elf is). Originally the High Ones (Jenny Elf's ancestor's) had a different look than what Jenny wears now. They were a different....species. The High Ones had the means within themselves to remake their own bodies into other living creatures which was soon lost but for a few like Timmain (the Wolfriders tribe's ancestor/founder). Well, let's just say that that ability is no longer somewhat dormant within Jenny....but it is not under her control. It sensed the re- incarnated elfin folks around it and, in a bid for species survival (as it were), had been slowly re-working Jenny's body into something genetically compatible with Terra Prime elves. Oh, she still looked as she had upon coming to Terra Prime, but genetically it was.....a different story. She still had the four handed fingers and such. Still had those sharply pointed ears and all that, but within her things had changed. She now was unaging. It was all to do with her "wolf blood".

What was really upsetting here for her was that her "wolf blood" within her was fading by the minute! See, what Wolfrider elves have within them are elements of the wolf in their makeup (long story....don't ask) that allows them a heightened set of senses (on par with Terra Prime elves) and such to better survive the harsh world they found themselves upon. The world of Two Moons (never to be called Abode now) had seemed to ask for mortality within the elves in order for her bounties to be shared with them (i.e. the elves must give back their dust upon their deaths in exchanges for what they got from this world in life). However, such wasn't necessarily the case of Terra Prime, and this "survival element" within Jenny was sensing that amongst other things. The best way to say how things were on Terra Prime could be summed up by the old U.S. Marine motto "Adapt and overcome." So in order for that to happen, this element within Jenny seemed to feel that the way Jenny had been wasn't good enough...so some changes were needed. Changes like what I've already mentioned and hinted at. Changes that would soon lay open the road for Jenny to be able to become a mage (which makes for an interesting thing, being that her Xanthian talent of singing to share daydreams still was working).

But being that, aside, she was rather upset about a link to her old life being lost alike that and such, you can imagine Wolfrider (which Jenny was) took some pride in that element within themselves, the "wolf blood"..... Well, Ti'mma was softly talking with her, calming her down. Being a High One (reincarnated or not) meant that she had a lot of manna with Jenny....and had a background that gave her the tools to help Jenny adjust to her changing self (as it were).

Somewhat calmer, Jenny soon was talking with Ti'mma about the troubles her Xanthian sisters seemed to be having with something called "math". Jenny had never heard of the term before so was going to ask what Ti'mma meant when she was laughing about how it might be due to the Xanthians using a base ten numbering system (due to the ten fingers humans have) when Jenny's kind had naturally used the more natural and accurate base eight system. She would have asked, but all questions and answers like that fled her and Ti'mma's heads when Tarin 2 Gazin and Grailing made the scene.

Hearts were sealed and wedding plans set for a few years down the road set (upon the brides reaching the marrying age of 18). Thus ended (and began) a circle in time....

Due to the mystical nature of the realm some Dark Elves had hid her and her friends away in during some kind of "recruiting drive" to gather forces for some kind of War of Shadows (a war between good and evil off on another reality) has aged to age eighteen by the time she got rescued, safe and sound. Was able to be unaffected by the mental torture attempts by her capture due to the fact that though she is elf, her mentality is of a different species than what they were used to dealing with.!

Has become a Champion and, like so ALL other elves who haled from the now vanished Elfquest reality, also finally married their soulmates!

Religious Affiliation- Church of the Forge

Marital Status- Married (Tarin Gazin 2)
Race - Elf (Wolfrider)


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