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After 21 years Demonland will be shutting it’s virtual doors. 

The toll that supporting this club has taken on me over the years has led me to this point and as a result this site will cease to exist from the end of today. 

Thank you to all the wonderful contributors and posters over the years and especially to those who have donated their time and money to helping this site remain online  

Hopefully one day this team will rise again and deliver us the premiership we all dream about  

Thank you and goodbye  

Go Dees ???

 

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    Well I was sucked in!

     

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    Jeez, after the shock I recalibrated pretty quiick when I realised how much more time in my day I would have to achieve my life goals and long shelved dreams.

    Did a quick meditation and watched the sun rise. Then checked dl one last time to wish you all well and realised I had been fooled.

    Now I feel foolish and my dreams have drifted back to the horizon.

    Oh well. 

    Banana skin game for us this week.....

     

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    I was crying so much at work that I farted. Now everyone at work is calling me sooky boy farty pants. Thanks Andy. 

    Edited by Ethan Tremblay

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    When I read the thread title, I assumed it was a temporary shutdown for some technical reason. I was cursing Andy for not including the word "temporary" in the title until I opened the thread, read it, skipped a heartbeat and then thankfully realised the date.

     

    While I'm here, it's never too often to thank Andy, WJ, Nasher, the mods and anyone else who keeps this site going for, well, keeping this site going.

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    I feel personally attacked by this content. I'm pretty sure I joined the original board in 2002. That's 19 years of my life in one place!

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    Why is everyone doubting Andy's word?!  Of course it's true!  Just as this is true...  image.thumb.png.2eeb696b0b78b929fae84589efe989fa.png

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    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

     

    Demonland
    'The Worm Ouroboros' location
    Demonland.jpg
    "Many-mountained Demonland"
    Demonland hippogriff.jpg
    Emblem of Demonland
    Created by Eric Rücker Eddison
    Genre High fantasy
    Information
    Type Monarchy
    Ethnic group(s) Demons
    Notable locations Galing (capital), Drepaby, Owlswick, Krothering
    Notable characters Lord Juss, Goldry Bluszco, Lord Spitfire, Brandoch Daha, Lady Mevrian

    Demonland is a large island in Eric Rücker Eddison's fantasy world, described in The Worm Ouroboros. The people who live in Demonland are referred to as demons, though they appear as humans with small horns adorned on their heads.

    Detail

    Demonland is the setting for much of the action in the story. Although it has a complicated geography, it was never fully defined by the author. Demonland is one of several important realms in the book. The others are Witchland, Impland, Goblinland, the Foliot Isles, and Pixyland.

    This is how Demonland was described by Lord Juss when he saw it in Chapter 8:

    Westward, facing the thunder-smoke of dawn, the fine far ridge of Kartadza was like cut crystal against the sky: the first island sentinel of many-mountained Demonland, his topmost cliffs dawn-illumined with pale gold and amethyst while yet the lesser heights lay obscure, lapped in the folds of night. And with the opening day the mists swathing the mountain's skirts were lifted up in billowy masses that grew and shrank and grew again, made restless by the wayward winds which morning waked in the hollow mountain side, and torn by them into wisps and streamers. Some were blown upward, steaming up the great gullies in the rocks below the peak, while now and then a puff of cloud swam free for a minute, floated a minute's space as ready to sail skyward, then indolently stooped again to the mountain wall to veil it in an unsubstantial fleece of golden vapour. (page 126)

    In fiction, Demonland is somewhat comparable to Rohan of Middle-earth or Cimmeria in Conan's world. As a real place, Demonland is similar to Norway during the Viking Age, both in geography and in its economy. Eddison describes a rugged land where people follow a pastoral economy inland, while near the ocean there are many ships and fishermen. No major cities are named but many castles are described; each lord of Demonland seems to rule over a territory centered around a castle. Major castles are:

    Many other places are named such as Switchwater Way, Glaumry Pike, Rammerick Mere and hundreds more. However, Eddison, unlike his better known contemporary Tolkien, never mapped his world.

    Government of Demonland

    As Paul Edmund Thomas explains in his introduction to the 1991 edition of the book, Demonland has no clear government. Lord Juss is not a king, and what orders are given are issued after a council meeting. Lord Spitfire says early on "Are not the Demons a free people?" Despite this, the ordinary farmers and fisherfolk of Demonland are content to follow their leaders into battle without much question or complaint.

    The main leaders of Demonland are the three brothers, Lord Juss, Goldry Bluszco, and Lord Spitfire; as well as one other great lord: Brandoch Daha. Lesser leaders of Demonland are:

    • Lord Volle of Kartadza
    • Lord Vizz of Darklairstead
    • Lord Zigg of Many Bushes
    • Other notable people from Demonland are: Astar, Tharmrod, Styrkmir, Quazz, and Melchar (see page 354)

    Several battles are fought in Demonland during the book:

    • Battle of Grunda - Corsus of Witchland defeats Lord Vizz of Demonland
    • Battle of Crossby Outsikes - Corsus defeats and kills Lord Vizz
    • Battle at the Rapes of Brima - Lord Spitfire defeats Corsus
    • Battle of Thremnir's Heugh - Lord Corinius of Witchland defeats Lord Spitfire
    • Battle of Krothering Side - Lord Juss and Brandoch Daha defeat Corinius and the entire Witchland army is driven from Demonland

    In addition one other battle is mentioned taking place before the book begins:

    • Sea battle at the Races of Kartadza - The fleet of Demonland destroys the fleet of the Ghouls (page 126)

    Demonland is also the home to the last of the wild hippogriffs, and a second hippogriff egg is found in the waters of Dule Tarn by Brandoch Daha. This allows Lord Juss to rescue his brother Goldry from the enchanted prison of Zora Rach.

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    Well I was sucked in and spat out.

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    Just now, dl4e said:

    Well I was sucked in and spat out.

    Me also......

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    Very timely decision since we have no opponents on Sunday following the Giants' sudden withdrawal from the AFL competition this morning.

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    1 hour ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

    I was crying so much at work that I farted. Now everyone at work is calling me sooky boy farty pants. Thanks Andy. 

    So what’s changed Ethan?

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    1 hour ago, Vagg said:

    Why is everyone doubting Andy's word?!  Of course it's true!  Just as this is true...  image.thumb.png.2eeb696b0b78b929fae84589efe989fa.png

    the Minister for Manila 

    If only it were true...

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