Main Page > Expanded Universe

The Tale of Nevin

AUTHOR: Irwin

Prehistory

Representing the most irritating part of Irwin's psyche, the thing that giggled incessantly all through her childhood, Nevin goes back far beyond the conception of the Book. Due to Irwin's irritating tendency to recycle characters, he has appeared in a few other things. Although he featured as a vague and uncertain entity in various early vision quests, he coalesced in essentially the same form in a tabletop roleplay game, which lasted one session until he became just too annoying to play. He then appeared (along with Vinny, in an earlier form, and also Skysong) as part of a gestalt entity in a series of stories posted on one of her archaic angelfire sites. He has appeared as a minor character in an unposted Hellsing fanfiction and enjoyed a brief stint (again, along with Vinny) on a truly disturbing online tentacle hentai rp. For an even shorter time, he appeared, along with the original Admiral Wallington, in a George MacDonald Fraser's "Pyrates!"-inspired piece jointly written with Tredert on a message board. His name was sourced (by which I mean stolen) from a Catharine Kerr novel, with a tiny anglicisation of the spelling. It is uncertain at what point he gained Welsh nationality, but he now seems to be very proud of it and refuses to give it up. He was given piratey backstory and truly twinkish half-fae powers especially for the Book.

The Tale

The Tale was written partly to fix Nevin in a particular form partly to finally give him some actual backstory and explain to everyone else who he was and why he had rudely inserted himself into the story at Chapter Thirteen, what shaped him, but mostly to make him shut the hell up. According to Irwin's files, it was started on the 13th of December 2003, making her wonder if he has some sort of propensity for 13s, and probably shortly after the first time she'd seen Pirates of the Caribbean (obviously). There is quite honestly not an original thought in her head. Other influences on the tale include the Mabinogion (obviously), Jenny Nimmo's "The Snow Spider", Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" and aforementioned Fraser book. The Tale should have contained more about Nevin's time as a guard in a concentration camp (the cause of the Swastika burn scar on his arm from wearing the armband), leading up to his self-imposed exile in the Schwarzwald, but Irwin is far too chicken to treat with such a delicate subject properly.