Here is the riddle:
What is this Essence map of?No need to ask:
Hint 1: The riddle is a trick question.
Hint 2: The title of the essence map gives you a clue.
Hint 3: That second hint might make things more confusing for some.
So that more people get a try at it, pm me your guesses. Once enough people have tried it, I will post the answer, and who got it right (if they do not mind)(and if anybody does get it right).
And there are prizes:
The first person on the Fantasy forum to guess the riddle, the first person to guess the riddle on the Sci-fi forum, and the first person to guess it on the Historical Fiction forum, get to choose from:
A picture drawn by me,
Or an in depth review of one of their works.
Are there any questions?Meanwhile you can post your discussion of the essence map itself in the thread.
)Clears throat. Editors pm me quotes of any typos you find and I will tell you whether or not they are supposed to be there. *shakes finger, grins*(
Have at it all!
An Essence named Alaiva--What they were doing, Underground:
A broad beam of white light
Keep here
Peak of an ice hill
Keep me away!
Blossoming in the winter storm
The peril of the Washerman at the ford of the creek
Different characters who do not know each other
I know, walk not
Robin redbreast
Japanese war fan
White shirt
A dark street with moonlit clouds above
A black watch with slow moving hands
A Hawaiian volcano outside a city
Under the awning outside a restaurant at a table, talking, forgetting about food
Numismatology
A broken tooth
Okay, now I thought it was right.
Nocturnal butterflies
The Wishlink
Copepod
An ear cut from the head
A frigid wind
Oh keep me!
A hang drum played in an empty room
Never say “dark”
A glass eye
Enter the key
Two eyes looking this way and that in unison. Then they see you
Taming the mouse with three eyes
A glass case for my experiments
Come here
Slowly slicing across the bridge of your nose
Sneezing blood
The battery inside
The color Blue, Black, and Red
Take me to the place
In the night season I win
--What is happening:
Take this and eat it
An open mine shaft
The keystone of an high arch
The swiftness of a swallow
A hand resting on a holstered gun
A hymn book found on the bottom of a river
A crumbling stone edifice
The light of headlights suddenly in your eyes at night
The Devil named Hure
I cope this way
Eyes glaze over
Rotting potatoes
The Ringsmith cult
Fish was spelled “fixh”
The tower named Jonas
A fly finding a new corpse in an unlikely place
Help me take
Knowledge of the darkness of a thing beyond the light turned back at its surface
How cold darkness is
I can't put something back
The sun burns the streets
The head of a girl who wonders
A hard house, made of big stones
A bruised belly
A cold smell
Holding an infant sword
What I know about your belly
Help me up
Bacterial soup
Is there ever an end
Keep the lock
Hard mouths
Never take a Dark Fantasy that goes into a room
A speaker on which dreadful things are played, and it cannot be silenced
A speaker playing dreadful things, underwater, on the bottom of a river
Eating hot tongue
The hero named Noah
A good taco with fresh lettuce, tomatoes, and onions
The word “Never.”
Bitten
An evil kind of forgiveness, and the good kind, good versus evil
Smelling different soaps
Ask a doctor to take the fishhook out of your ear
Repeat after me, Light
Oh! Do not be hard!
Do not be heard
--Evermore:
Carl does not know about it
Tangled in the garbage underwater
Naming the new land, and all of its cities and people
Lunkhead wins
Uncouth fishhook
Turn away Steven
A temple redeemed from heresy
A cap lying on the ground
Under the arch, under the keystone
Recoping
Metallurgy at midnight
Lights along the way
The master of the city
Happy blood
Taking away the darkness to a different place
Into the horizontal pit
I would like to heal you
An atlas of lies
--What we, Longing:
Put my hand in your pocket
--FINALITY:
A metal picture
There it is, though without any brackety things I suppose it is more of a freestyle map? That is just my question, it is not a riddle.
Please critique! What are your favorite parts? Do you have any questions?
Also, what do you think of the format I used? To me it seems to focus more on the essence rather than the structure of the map.
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Additional Hints:
Hint 4: the riddle really is a trick question
Hint 5: the riddle is a really trick question
Hint 6: if I reword the riddle I might as well tell every one the answer
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Juliet did not bother reading the essence map to figure out what it was an essence map of.
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I thought of the riddle long before I began the actual essence map.
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Before I thought of the Riddle I had a few large essence maps to which the Riddle could apply. I just made a new one for fun. The same with the Hint map.
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The part of the essence map titles which could give you a clue is the way they are worded:
An Essence called ___
A lot of the guesses, if they were correct, would mean that the Riddle was not a trick question. (They are still good guesses because they evidence other, interesting trains of thought.) However, you can find out exactly what the answer is from knowing that the Riddle itself is a trick question. It is really quite simple.
The Riddle is:
"What is this an essence map of?"
And it is a trick question. You need know no more than that.
The biggest hint I have yet given is that I made two essence maps for the Riddle, and:
"It is not of a different part or perspective of the same thing, but of exactly the same thing."
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http://www.holyworlds.org/fantasy/viewtopic.php?f=33&p=126878#p126878~
The answer makes the question incorrect, in a sense. That is why it is a trick question.
By the way, Mama thinks it is a mean Riddle. Juliet says she thinks so too.
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- Has, like, no idea what the riddle is leading to -