Category: Atian

Atian is shedding some lights on our Books...

10/14/2019

Don't you like to curl up and read a good book or hear someone tell a story? As the Historian for the Village on the Wall, I enjoy both. Books are a wonderful way to live an adventure without ever having to leave the comforts of your chair.

A good book can be enlightening by providing entertainment and knowledge, but you would never believe the surprise I got the other day looking in the MisPlace Dolls library while I was trying to find something new to read.

Their library is always an adventure because they don't believe in having just one classification of books. I didn't even know that Outies (people who live outside of the Realms) kept encyclopedias anymore!!!

I even found out that they have a mechanical device that stores thousands of books on it and it weighs less than a henway (What's a henway you ask? Once you catch one and if it doesn't peck you to get away - you will know when you pick it up - old joke I found in one of their books - I still don't get it)...

Anyway, to get back to what I was saying about books being enlightening. I got a surprise the last time I was in their library. A shelf of books that I did not recognize the titles for caught my eye and I took them to a favorite little reading spot that they have all set-up for me (I am a frequent guest). You would never believe the surprise I got when I opened the first one... (enlightening indeed!).

I had to admit... they got me and I then just had to open some more to see what was inside.

Each book had something different and when you pressed a switch on the side, they would light up (wished I had some of those little lights in my cottage...).

This one really caught my eye. It took a minute to find the mouse (can you see it?). It helped when I turned the light on...

It was at this time the Outies here at MisPlace Dolls showed up and I decided it was time to go... as I was leaving, I realized that I had not opened the last book that I had taken out and it was still in my reading spot. I wonder what was in it? I guess I will just have to check soon in the PeddlersCache to see... maybe it will look good on my shelf in the cottage.

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A Dragon's Secret

2/22/2018

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The Shadow King Hears a Rumor...

2/11/2018

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“The King must hear about this,” thought Meen excitedly. “If Atian didn’t have the best jumping mushrooms around his cottage to jump over, I would have never heard him and Granny.”

As Meen rushed back to the Shadows' Realm, jumping over mushrooms, logs, and frogs in her hurry to report to the King, she could still hear Granny telling Atian not to yell at her. “Of course Dragons could talk – doesn’t everything talk?” Meen asked herself. “If frogs and fish can talk, why not a Dragon?”

Shortly Meen was through the edges of the forest and starting into the deeper, darker, parts of the woods. This is where the sun could only come through the tree tops as small beams of light and wisps. The Shadows lived here and the bright strain of sunlight was never very strong. “Ah, home!” smiled Meen. It was nice to play tag with the sun beams as they poked out, but she preferred to stay hidden in the shadows.

“Okay, slow down, catch your breath… breathe…” she told herself before entering the Shadows' King's Receiving Hall. “Oh how I can't wait to tell him everything,” she mumbled to herself.

“Tell me what Meen?” asked Hunter, the Shadows's King of the Shadows' Realm. Startled, Meen prostrated herself before her liege. “Arise Meen. You know I do not like that! Get up!”

“My Liege, I have wondrous news. Granny Flare and Atian have a baby!”

Hunter looked at Meen, raised one eyebrow and tipped his head down to look at her, and waited for Meen to say more. When Meen just stood there smiling, Hunter asked again “Let me get this right, you are telling me that Atian and Granny Flare have a baby?”

Meen jumped up and down, clapping her hands together and smiling while nodding her head in the affirmative. “They were talking really loud about it to each other outside of his cottage. I was hopping mushrooms when I came up on Snoop who was there listening too. They were yelling about the baby and who on the council would they tell first.”

“I will have to see this! They must be very excited. Thank you Meen. As he turns to leave he thinks to himself..." I did not even know they were seeing each other, or is the correct term dating each other, let alone now having a baby!"

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The Heart of Magic...

2/2/2018

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“Atian, it just isn't so!" said Granny Flare. "Just because you figured out the Baroness' secret that I have been trying to keep, doesn't make you the expert! Yes, a baby Dragon is a challenge, but I am sure we can come up with a solution to keep him undiscovered until we are ready to let the Village know.”

"You are right about not letting the Village know, Granny, but you should have told the Council," Atian replies with a small shake of his head. "The Council should be a part of this process of helping the baby Dragon."

"You are right. The Council needs to talk to the Dragon," conceded Granny.

"Do you mean he can talk too? Baby Dragons talk?" hollered Atian.

"Don't yell at me Atian. You wanted to know all about him. What are we going to do?"

"What 'we' are going to do, Granny, is tell the Council now. But how and who should be first to know... I don't know?"

Off in the bushes, trying not to be seen, Snoop was doing what he is best known for - Snooping. "I wish I could get closer to hear more of what they are saying," he thought. He could only hear parts of their conversation, but enough to know they were talking about Dragons.

"That's it! Granny has a baby Dragon! No wonder Atian looks worried. That also explains the strange way the Baroness had been acting. This has got to go to the presses for today's edition of the newspaper... wait, who is that coming? It looks like Hunter. The King of Shadows hardly ever leaves his realm..." smiled Snoop. "I might as well get comfortable and wait to see why he is here."

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Granny Gets Caught...

1/5/2018

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“I wish I could have found what I needed in these books, but I am glad that Gardner left his wheel barrow out again. It does make it easier to for me to bring all of these books back,” thought Granny Flare as she pushed the load of books to Atian’s hut.

As Granny neared the hut she saw Atian sitting on his mushroom reading again. Or maybe he had never left it from the time she first borrowed the books. “Books with outdated information are so frustrating!” she grumbled as she approached.

“What did you say?” asked Atian, “And what did you mean by ‘outdated information’”?

“Your books were not much help Atian,” replied Granny.

Looking slightly puzzled, Atian put down the book he was reading and shot Granny a glare. “What do you mean Granny? These books are about Dragon history. How could they be outdated? It is not like Dragons have been seen here for hundreds of years.” Atian walked over to the wheel barrow and picked up the top book in the pile and opened it to the middle.

Granny walked up behind him and looked over his shoulder at the open page. "Now see that picture? It is all wrong", Granny snapped without thinking. "A baby dragon has smaller wings and the nose bump is all wrong. Even the tail is not right... it should be shorter.”

“How do you know that Granny? No one has seen a Dragon since these books were first scribed and babies were rarely seen."

Blushing, Granny realized that she had just made a mistake. “I… I…”

“So Granny, I think you need to tell me more about what you know regarding baby Dragons.”

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Snoop starts snooping...

1/3/2018

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"What is the Baroness hiding I wonder?" thought Snoop. Just having left her tea parlor, Snoop wasted no time in starting his ‘snooping’. "Maybe if I visit Atian he can see what clues I might be missing.

"We shall see… We shall see...” he thought. "After all, he is a fellow council member and the Village Historian and I am going to need help solving this mystery of what the Baroness is hiding."

As Snoop starts his walk to Atian's hut, Atian already has a visitor, Granny Flare. She yells out the front door as he is sitting in his favorite reading spot, the oversize mushroom in his yard.

"What else do you have on dragon's?" Granny asks. "Since you are the Historian, you might as well be the Librarian. You are the only one in the whole village with a decent collection of books." Not waiting for Atian to respond, she continues, "Do you have anything on the care and maintenance of a baby dragon?"

"Try the second stack behind the door. Towards the bottom," replies Atian. Granny soon finds them at the very bottom of the indicated pile. "If Atian was a Brownie he certainly would be much more organized than this, that's for sure," Granny thinks to herself.

As Snoop nears Atian's hut, he sees the Historian sitting on the large mushroom and reading one of his books. "Yep! Nothing strange here... Atian always seems to have his 'nose' in a book", Snoop thinks smiling to himself.

Granny sees Snoop coming up the walkway through a small window of the hut and decides she had better get out of there. "All I need now is Snoop snooping around and asking questions I don't want to answer," Granny decides.

"Atian, I am going to borrow a few of these books and will return them to you later in the week. Is that is okay with you?" Again, not waiting for Atian to answer, Granny sneaks out the backdoor of the hut with the books in tow.

"Good morning Atian, my old friend," greets Snoop.

Before looking up from his book, Atian mumbles to himself, "My day started so much quieter before all my friends started dropping in".

As Atian peers over the top of his book he replies, "Hello, Augustus (aka Snoop). I predicted from the way Granny Flare was just here that you would also be showing up soon."

"How would you know that?" responds a startled Snoop.

"It is all in seeing the patterns of history. That is my specialty after all. Now, how can I help you? You usually have some bee in your bonnet (or top hat) when you come to see me."

"I just finished having tea with the Baroness and I know that she is hiding something. She was twitching, nervous, and appeared like she was trying not to tell me something."

As he listens to Snoop's theories, Atian starts putting together recent events and some of the things that Granny Flare said while she was hunting through his books. Ideas started floating around in his head. Crazy ideas they were indeed!!!

"Snoop, Granny Flare was just here and she did mentioned that the Baroness had received a letter today from her grandfather, the Baron. This might be part of the mystery of why she was so twitchy and anxious as she told Granny that she had to leave town suddenly because of it."

"Did she say anything more?" asked Snoop.

"Granny did say she was being left in charge, but as to what, she wasn't sharing those details. Could this have something to do with the books she was asking about regarding baby Dragons? We all know about the Dragons leaving the Village and how that brought down the decline of the Village, but you are wanting to know more... Am I correct? There is a pattern here that the two of you are weaving regarding the need to know about Dragons."

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The Art & Magic of the Tattoo

12/17/2017

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Oh, what interesting paths I walk with my dolls. This newest character, Atia (who was going to be female), is now going to be Atian (a male). This doll has taken me down a path I had yet to explore.

Atian (pronounced At-tee-an), is the Historian for the Village on the Wall. His character requires him to be old and magical, giving him a longevity of life as he has lived in the same spot even before the Village. He is a character that sees more than those that have lived it. He understands the concepts of cause and effect and how history repeats itself for those that do not learn from the past. He is The Master of Words and loves the power they create.

As such, he represents a challenge for me on how to render him old without making him look wizardly. After all, he isn't that extremely old for being a Fae.

Tattooing then came to mind since it has a power all of it's own. Now, I don't own a tattoo nor does a tattoo own me. I needed the advice of an expert, so I called my son, Greg. He is a tattoo artist in the Portland, Oregon area.

I understand the tribal energy connected to this art and some of the tattoo designs are truly amazing. To me, tattooing is a process where we want to express a piece of ourselves for others to see as well as draw upon that magical element by making it a part of us.

In talking with Greg, he explained that in the beginning tattoo ink wasn't the traditional black and colors that we have now, but a bluish-black indigo ink. As the tattoo faded with time it could change to a different shade of blue. That is what made me decide that Atian needed his magical tattoo.

Atian is part of the Fae that are tribal. Part of the whole, but yet, on his own. As I was exploring what type of tattoo to use on him I realized that also the Winter Solstice is just around the corner. A time of coming out of the dark and into the light. Keep that in mind as Atian's tattooing develops... and so the process begins.

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Atian is shedding some lights on our Books...

A Dragon's Secret

The Shadow King Hears a Rumor...

The Heart of Magic...

Granny Gets Caught...

Snoop starts snooping...

The Art & Magic of the Tattoo

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