Extra, extra! Four Winds covers steps taken towards peace in the Green Isles!

[KatieHal]

The Four Winds gets inside some of the latest developments in the Land of the Green Isles as the islands put their rocky past behind them and take steps towards peace under the rule of King Alexander and Queen Cassima!

Read all about it!

Also new this issue, see larger versions of the Four Winds artwork by clicking on the images in the article!

[KatieHal]

I do have to say I particularly like this one--it gives some peeks into what's been going on in the Green Isles since KQ6, why some things that are different are indeed different, and we got some great artwork for it. I really especially love Elisa Pavinato's work on the Market scene and Tina Olah's gnomes!

[Baggins]

Isle of the Beast is taking its own deadly traps

What do you mean by this? It seems some words are missing.

BTW, the "traps" were enchantments put up by an old hag that cursed the beast, and originally transported and trapped him on the island around 100 years before KQ6. So they would have to be "disenchanted".

Alexander already did most of the disenchantment I think, except for disenchanting the forest itself (which was magically overgrown).

market to a grinding halt three years ago, leaving the pawnshop and the bookstore the only thriving businesses on the island.

Hmm, actually both the Hakim and Ali both say they weren't thriving, infact business is doing very poorly for them in KQ6. You point this out in the next line, but "thriving" sounds way too positive considering the context.

Also I believe it was the ferryman in KQ6, that pointed out that the trade routes between the islands shut down at some point when Cassima was just a little girl (we don't have her exact age in KQ6 though).

[KatieHal]

Well, they were still open--making them pretty thriving comparatively speaking.

There was a missing word in that page 1 sentence though, which I've now fixed.

[wilco64256]

Yeah I'd say at the time KQ6 took place, pretty much any business that could open its doors at all qualified as thriving.

[snabbott]

Great article! A few little things, though:

The restored ferry has lead to the re-opening of the marketplace on the Isle of the Crown;

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With the ferry back in working order and the Isles at peace once again, the Isle of the Crown's bustling marketplace is bustling once again.

Was the repeated word deliberate?

This refusal stemmed from the Cliffs' involvement in an ancient prophecy, a representative of the Isle told the Four Winds. Once

King Alexander proved to be the subject of said prophecy by conquering them, their purpose was served and they were no longer necessary.

Odd place for a paragraph break...

we are working on securing an insider's tour of the Winged Ones city upon it completion.

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the theatrical debut of "With All My Will" by the late Cynthia Cox.

I don't get this. Are we supposed to know who that is?

[wilco64256]

I feel like I've heard that name before in connection with King's Quest or Sierra, I just can't place it right of the top of my head.

[KatieHal]

Edited b/c the Cynthia Cox bit was from the News in Brief, which Ryan wrote, not me. I don't think we're supposed to know that name, though, no.

And yes, that's an intentional repeat of 'bustling'. The other errors I fixed. Now how about more talk on the content?

[snabbott]

Now how about more talk on the content?

Ok. I like how it ties into Episode2 (and beyond). Oh, but I can't talk about that...

[Baggins]

"My ancestors commissioned the archer and hunter statues on that wall generations ago, but since the archer has become a
deadly menace, it's simply not safe to have him up there any longer," Cocteau said.

Hmm, I'd recomend you go and relisten to the Beast's story in KQ6. This is pretty much at odds with the story he tells.

The witch was the one who put up the various enchanted traps, to not only trapped him on the enchanted island she had created for him, but also to keep anyone who might break the curse from getting to him (or falling under the same curse).

We are told that the beast used to be an adventurer in his youth traveling around the world saving maidens. He attacked one too many old hags, and the last one cursed him, and apparently transported him to the island.

As according the Guidebook that came with the game, we are told that at one time no one lived on the island it was the Castle of the Crown's royal hunting grounds, the Isle of the Forest (about a 100 years before KQ6). The day after the curse occured, the King at the time Aliphim traveled there to go hunting found that the woods had overgrown mysteriously, and all he could hear was a inhuman scream from the woods. They couldn't go very far in seeing that it was blocked by enchanted traps.

[wilco64256]

The hag cursed the area yes, but that doesn't necessarily mean she also made the statues - they could have been there previously and she just animated them.

[Baggins]

Ya, except in the guidebook were told that it was King Aliphim's hunting ground, and for that reason they left island uninhibated. Using it only to hunt. As in no one lived there, LOL.

http://kingsquest.wikia.com/wiki/Isle_of_the_Forest

This refusal stemmed from the Cliffs' involvement in an ancient prophecy, a representative of the Isle told the Four Winds.

The prophecy wasn't actually all that ancient. It was one of the Oracle's own prophecies, and she uttered it around the time that the Minotaur moved into the catacombs. Which according to the Guidebook, a few years before the guidebook. The guidebook itself was written only about a decade or so before KQ6.

The cliffs actually predated the Winged Ones, to the time of the Ancient Ones. They had a completely different reason for building them.

[KatieHal]

Perhaps the hag moved the Beast's whole home castle there when she dumped him there. After all, if no one lived there before, the castle, etc, had to get there somehow.

[wilco64256]

Ya, except in the guidebook were told that it was King Aliphim's hunting ground, and for that reason they left island uninhibated. Using it only to hunt. As in no one lived there, LOL.

http://kingsquest.wikia.com/wiki/Isle_of_the_Forest

Yes but Cocteau certainly was a prince from somewhere, so the hag properly transported both him and his castle (and the associated hedge maze, walls, rosebushes, etc.) to the Isle of the Beast.  He definitely didn't build the castle and everything that came with it as a beast.

[Baggins]

Well, we are also told that the Prince only had to heirlooms with him when he tried to attack the sorceress. First his shield, the second was his ancestral ring. He believed the shield was stolen leaving him with only one family heirloom.

If it was his castle, then it would venture to guess that there were alot more heirlooms, including the castle itself. One could argue that if the gate came along with the castle it was an "heirloom" as well.

Still doesn't fit with several lines that state the witch 'created' these "barriers" herself, as well as his prison.

Hmm, actually the game says that the "hedge maze" was the last barrier to castle, and would probably make the curse affect on Alexander worse, if he had attempted to pass through it to the castle.

It really seems that KQ6 was preocuppied in having that "sorceress"/"hag" as a poweful being who constructed all of that for him :p, as part of his curse.

Seriously one would guess for him still to be a prince, than his father was probably still the king within the castle, of wherever Prince originated from (when he was cursed).

[wilco64256]

Well an archer statue isn't a barrier unless it tries to kill you, so the statue could have existed as part of his property before.  And not every single item that a person owns is considered an "heirloom."  I have a whole house full of personal belongings and toys for my kids, but I would only consider very few of the things I own (maybe three or four) as actual family "heirlooms."

[Baggins]

You try to much, :p...

Guess this means his father the king, was brought along with the castle, and probably turned into a throne or something...(disney allusion)

It may also mean that you probably tied some of these references into the game and probably can't fix it :p...

[KatieHal]

You try to much, :p..

Says the guy who nitpicks constantly...

We offered you an explanation, it does in fact fit with the things stated in the Guidebook and game itself, and the article isn't going to be re-written. Why is he a prince and not a king, who knows, maybe it was a personal decision on the Beast's part. As for how one defines heirlooms, etc, that's a semantics argument.

[Baggins]

The add the explanation into the article, :p... Otherwise you'll just confuse others who play the KQ6 and read your article and go "hmm"?

[KatieHal]

This article isn't about the Beast's history.