Fairy Chess: played on a chess grid
Fauns: half man half goat, depicted by woodwose · “Playing a game of worlds, promoting pawns to ivory unicorns and ebon fauns”
o “Oleg was a regular faunlet”, “faunal names”, “Jane de Faun”, “Fauna and flora”
o A nymphet is the female equivalent of a Faunlet
§ Goldsworth’s four nymphets
o Pan: in Greek religion and mythology, is the god of the wild, nature, of mountain wilds, as well as the companion of the nymphs.
§ In Roman myth, Pan's counterpart was Faunus, a nature god who was the father of Bona Dea, sometimes identified as Fauna. Pan’s homeland is in rustic Arcadia
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§ “Old Pan” ln 330
Nightrider (Unicorn)o “And now what shall I do? My knight is pinned.” / Who rides so late in the night and the wind”
o represented by an inverted knight: is essentially equal to a knight piece
“There are always ‘three nights’ in fairly tales” (p190)o Archbishop (knight + bishop compound)
o Chancellor (knight + rook compound)
o Nightrider
Roseo Moves as a Nightrider, except that rather than moving in a straight line, it moves along pseudo-circular ones. A rose standing on e1 on an empty board, for instance, can move to any of the squares on the large circle c2, b4, c6, e7, g6, h4 and g2; as well as c2 and a1; or d3 and b4; or d3, e5 and g6; or f3, e5, c6 and a5; or f3 and h4.
o Rose Court of the Ducal chapel: sees black minister
o Despite the hopelessness of the situation, the King refused to abdicate. A haughty and morose captive, he was caged in his rose-stone palace from a corner turret of which one could make out with the help of field glasses lithe youths diving into the swimming pool of a fairy tale sport club
o Black Rose Paladins: knights
o "A beautiful woman should be like a compass rose of ivory with four parts of ebony."
o East was the turquoise door; north, the door of the gallery; west, the door of the closet; south, the window
Marine Pieceo A combination piece consisting of a rider (for ordinary moves) and a locust (for captures).
o Marine pieces have names alluding to the sea and its myths, e.g., mermaid (marine queen), or poseidon (marine king) seen in Pale Fire as merman
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