Notes from the Deluxe Elf Interview, pt 6 (HBMP podcast)
I like to process important stuff more thoroughly to help me retain it, so I take notes when I listen to shows and podcasts and stuff. And the best episode of Hot Brown Morning Potion Podcast just came out–the Deluxe Elf Interview with Devon Giehl and Iain Hendry–so you know I was all over that. This is just my personal notes, nothing super detailed or organized, and not delved into yet at all.
If I have a direct quote, it’s in double quotes. Sometimes my notes are paraphrasing or getting only most of the words, and sometimes it’s just me rambling, but if I “quote” something, it’s a proper direct quote that I went back and listened to. Also, sometimes I noted who was talking, just because I loved how they played off each other and offered different perspectives. I is for Iain and D is for Devon.
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Devon and Iain don’t read TDP fanfic for legal reasons, but they love it in general and encourage it, and they do see TDP fanart. The one where Runaan yeeted Rayla into the water was probably canon.
Rayla’s dad is the ultimate bro. Supportive of people’s dreams. He’s the friendly one, friendlier than most elves. Her mom is quiet, planner, calculating. She’s the brains, he’s the impulsive side. Rayla is like her mom when collected, like her dad when she’s being impulsive.
Devon likes mean elves, aggressive elves, lofty img of themselves. Sunfires. They look down at others for not having their shit together like they do. Skywings are more fun to hang out with. Birb elves.
There is not a Star Touch elf society. Not numerous enough.
Sunfires have a single authority. Heavily militaristic. Xadia looks to the Sunfires as protectors and a guiding light but they’re also violent and arrogant. The enforcers in Xadia. Can be overbearing. They need to chill.
Tidebound elves have very different cultures depending on where they live. They could communicate across the water as long as it connects.
Callum doesn’t know what Earthblood elves sound like so he was guessing with that accent.
Money: Runaan was being a jerk more than he was commenting on money not being a Xadian thing. Sunfires do what’s expected of them to serve for Sunfire glory. Moonshadows trade more like barter? More freely trade in the villages. Skywings are so far apart they might use some kinds of tokens. Or shiny treasures they find, like actual magpies. Callum as prince wouldn’t understand money anymore than Rayla but he’d be more of a planner and budgeter than she is.
Iain said “horn cuffs” imma die I made that term up ages ago and he said it in the podcast *dies*
“Horndornments”, for Sunfire horn decorations, lol. Iain sees horn jewelry like rings. Horn cuffs can be extremely meaningful relationship-status gifts between couples but they don’t always mean marriage
One of the two Sunfires who gets yeeted into the lava has nothing on his horns but he was supposed to so they hc that he’s a derpy fresh recruit.
Beauty standards for horns? Star touch elf horns are the most incredible and beautiful that anyone’s ever seen. Some elves prefer certain kinds of horns.
Hanna put the jewel on Ethari’s horn cuff to represent Runaan in some way. For hiis eye color.
I: “Ethari definitely thinks Runaan has cute horns though. Fact.”