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ELOTH:TES Makes The News

Posted by Zonk on from the down-with-furnicators dept.

The well-known Elmenstor Saga, a hit franchise of novels, comics, cartoons, and games, has been featured in a Wired article about the project's continued success. From the article: "Spanning more than 1,400 articles, the Epic Legends of the Hierarchs -- or as fans have unpronounceably abbreviated it, ELOTH:TES -- [is a] modern fantasy franchises: a rich history that spans thousands of years; a contentiously out-of-canon cartoon offshoot, The Wizbits; as well as a crazed, seizure-ridden chief creative director, James Langomedes ..." I always thought Vel Jinglefist got the short end of the straw in the American version of the show. The Japanese treatment of his character was much broader.

24 comments

  1. Elmenstor Saga? by Yocto+Yotta · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So, just to clarify since Zonk cared not to, this is a fictional IP created by the PA guys and elaborated on by losers -- I mean nerds -- damn it, I mean fans. Don't go looking for the Wizbits DVDs. Anytime soon anyhow.

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    1. Re:Elmenstor Saga? by MiG_Master · · Score: 1

      Created a world in 7 days.

    2. Re:Elmenstor Saga? by zedaar · · Score: 4, Informative

      The idea that the Elemenstor Saga was created by the PA guys is refuted here:

      http://elothtes.pbwiki.com/Penny%20Arcade%20Conspi racy%20Theory

    3. Re:Elmenstor Saga? by gauge+boson · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Stupid moderators... click through, morons. That should be "funny" not "insightful".

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    4. Re:Elmenstor Saga? by Haeleth · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      this is a fictional IP

      NO, NO, NO. Please, for the love of all that is good and holy, do not give dignity and legitimacy to the bastard concept of intellectual "property" by using it as a synonym for "work".

      This is a fictional universe, or a work of fiction. It is not "an IP", because there is no such thing.

      Remember - every time you use the term "IP", God patents a kitten.

    5. Re:Elmenstor Saga? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The purpose of ELOTH:TES is to move merchandise. Calling it a property is entirely appropriate.

    6. Re:Elmenstor Saga? by nekojin · · Score: 1

      Or maybe, you know, he purposely left that information out since that's part of the joke. Or was that too subtle for you?

    7. Re:Elmenstor Saga? by KDR_11k · · Score: 1

      Work usually refers to the specific product (e.g. a mickey mouse short) while IP often refers to the entire "world" depicted in it and other works (e.g. mickey mouse himself). If you prefer, we can call it "franchise".

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    8. Re:Elmenstor Saga? by KDR_11k · · Score: 1

      It's not his job to spread misinformation. Most people don't know what the hell "ELOTH:TES" is supposed to be so all we know is what's written in those articles he linked. I thought it was related to The Elder Scrolls (because of the TES bit).

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  2. I for one by minus_273 · · Score: 1

    welcome our new ambulatory furniture overlords

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  3. Unpronounceable...? by palndrumm · · Score: 2, Informative

    as fans have unpronounceably abbreviated it, ELOTH:TES

    Unpronounceable? It's got 'el' (as in bell), 'oth' (as in moth), and 'tes' (as in test) - 'eloth-tes'. What's the slightest bit unpronounceable about that?

    1. Re:Unpronounceable...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      the tricky part is figuring out if the ":" (pronounced adexituvnt in some instances and oiunggng in others) goes with the "th" of eloth or the "t" of tes...

    2. Re:Unpronounceable...? by Xarius · · Score: 1

      Obviously you don't have a lisp!

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    3. Re:Unpronounceable...? by drsquare · · Score: 1

      I think what he meant was, it's impossible to pronounce without sounding like a Spaniard with a lisp.

  4. I really miss that show. by Daikiki · · Score: 4, Funny

    I used to watch the Wizbits religiously on Saturday mornings, but I haven't seen any reruns in a long time. They say there's a DVD on the way, but I can't find it on Amazon. Anybody know of any torrents?

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  5. Password? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I feel like rambling about moving furniture and famous hats so: What is the wiki's password?

    1. Re:Password? by TheGuano · · Score: 1

      It was posted on one of the PA news updates--should be "elemenstorsaywha" wtq of course.

  6. Since I have a nice big test audience here... by -kertrats- · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Anyone with any background in CCGs go check out the rules I wrote for the Wizbits game. I'd like to make it as overly complicated and funny as possible (in a nerd-type "resolution nuances are funny" fashion), while still keeping it playable. If anyone has any pointers (and with this large of an audience, I expect there will be), email or respond.

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  7. How can it not be a hoax? by ludomancer · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Just google the thing, for damns sake. You'll be lucky to find a freakin' trace of any of the terminology or supposed associated franchises in the entire history of the web that concerns this fiction piece of work.

    I think it's a hilarious and fun project they're doing, but the fact that anyone would seriously support it as a legitimately existing franchise (at least before it existed in it's recent wiki form) just shows how absurd some people can be. We live in an age where people will make fan sites for 70's TV sitcoms that a total of 2 people in the human world even viewed. I don't know how anyone could think something with such purported cult-popularity could exist without a single trace of its existence anywhere else.

    This doesn't even include the fact that one of the PA authors menitoned on the website on Wendesday that it was indeed a hoax.

    So yay Penny Arcade and all that, for putting together a fun and interesting world from scratch and within a few days. I think it'd be a great foundation for a future franchise to be created from as a joke; something everyone will laugh about in the future when we think about how it was whisked into existance from nothing by a group of bored geeks.

    1. Re:How can it not be a hoax? by NBarnes · · Score: 1

      ludomancer moderated -1, Trolled

    2. Re:How can it not be a hoax? by forkazoo · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I thought so, too. But, a Japanese friend hooked me up with one of the episodes of the original ElemenSTAR, and I realised that I actually had seen like one or two episodes of the American dubbed version when I was in high school.

    3. Re:How can it not be a hoax? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Stop fucking with our heads!

  8. Fooled! by Avacar · · Score: 1

    Well, I don't know about you, but ELOTH:TES had me confused for a while, if not fooled!

    I'm a 'regular' Penny-Arcade reader, in that I read all the news posts and the comics as they come out M-W-F, but I don't frequent their forums. At first, it seemed evident to me that ELOTH:TES was an in joke, until the wiki showed up! Then suddenly all these people were filling out their memories of the show! Gabe and Tycho did a great playing up their part, leaving me thinking "I was sure this was a joke, but where did all these people come from? Maybe I really did miss out back in the '90s.".

    So kudo's to Penny-Arcade and all their fans for at least stringing me on for a while, even if it was just a moment of hesitation.

  9. It IS a stringup by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 1

    Gabe spilled the beans on the PA frontpage. Which was nice because I had NO idea what was going on. I thought it was all some D&D inspired 80 TV show that Tycho has decided to resurrect to feed to his offspring. But as it turns out, the show was cancelled in '83, but wasn't actually created until 2006^H5.

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