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Plains tribes were scattered as much through vagrancy
and underemployment as through anything the draconians
were doing at the time, and the fact is that they were
confined to a life of wandering and forage merely because
so many of the more promising young people among them
were hastened off to dance attendance on the various
Chieftains and Chieftain's daughters. Those who were left
were essentially scavengers, as evidenced below.
I have an additional paragraph regarding Gold-moon,
which shall not be published until after River-wind's death
(see note to lines 46-50).
Lines 37-41: THE NEXT FROM . . . SPACE INTO LIGHT. Riverwind.
"Hierarchies of space" indeed, for the poor man was completely boggled
by his semi-successful quest for the Blue Crystal Staff.26 He was
indeed "in the shadow of the moon," and Armavir constructs a marvelous
pun in line 37. In Goldmoon's shadow is the obvious reading - he was
slavishly devoted to her - -but in addition, Armavir means to suggest
that the Plainsman walked beneath the shadow of Lunitari, the moon from
which the common speech derives the term "lunatic."
Frankly, the Plainsman was frightening, and although
Armavir hoped devoutly to wake one mom-ing and find a
kender topknot (complete with, possibly, kender noggin)
dangling from Riverwind's belt, the poet never really
ventured to make acquaintance with the hunter, who
suffered from all kinds of delusions, including one that he
had been raised by leopards, the only support for which was
a slight lack of personal cleanliness and a tendency to glaze
over and grow abstract when Goldmoon stroked the top of
his head (a condition that Armavir thought resembled
hypnosis, although the hypnotic suggestion "you are now
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