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Before its first appearance in the series little is known about where the show has been except that it was in Illian around the time the Hunt of the Horn was called. ({{foh|36}})
 
Before its first appearance in the series little is known about where the show has been except that it was in Illian around the time the Hunt of the Horn was called. ({{foh|36}})
[[Elayne]], [[Nynaeve]], [[Thom]] and [[Juilin]] first encounter the show outside a town called Sienda in Amadicia. ({{foh|13}})
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[[Elayne]], [[Nynaeve]], [[Thom]] and [[Juilin]] first encounter the show outside a town called Sienda in Amadicia. ({{foh|13}})
  
  

Revision as of 10:15, 8 April 2009

Valan Luca’s Circus

Author: Kerna Shedrian

Introduction

Valan Luca’s Grand Traveling Show and Magnificent Display of Marvels and Wonders, to give it its full name (WH, Ch. 15), is a travelling menagerie. This show travels with both performers and animals.

Organization & Roles

Valan Luca is the ringmaster, though that is not the term used to describe him in the series. He keeps the show together through his own persuasion more than anything else. (KoD, Ch. 10) His wife Latelle, in addition to her role as a performer, dispenses ointments to the showfolk. (KoD, Ch. 25) As the show grew seamstresses joined the show but before this all costumes would have been sewn by Clarine, though Luca is the person behind the choice of colors and cuts. (See Costumes) Although there is no set hierarchy to the group, everyone but the children have a vote. (KoD, Ch. 10) It is also noted that the horse handlers are the lowest rung on the ladder as they perform no acts, earning the lowest pay and doing the dirtiest work. (Template:Foh) Included in the horse handlers duties is collecting the money at the entrance

Layout

Performers

Animals

A great, black-maned lion lay half-asleep in one cage that took up the entire back of a wagon, while his two consorts paced in the confines of another. A third cage stood open; in front of it a woman was making two black bears with white faces balance themselves on big red balls. Another cage held what appeared to be a large, hairy boar, except that its snout was too pointed and it, had toes with claws; that came from the Aiel Waste, she knew, and was called a capar. Other cages held other animals, and brightly colored birds, but unlike any menagerie she had ever seen, this one traveled with human performers: two men were juggling ribbon twined hoops between them, four acrobats were practicing standing on' one another's shoulders in a tall column, and a woman was feeding a dozen dogs that walked on their hind legs and did backflips for her. In the background, some other men were putting up two tall poles; she had no idea what they were for. She could smell the lions herself, but it was at three huge, wrinkled gray animals that the horses gazed, wild-eyed. Two were as tall as the coach, with big ears and great curving tusks beside a long nose that dangled to the ground. The third, shorter than the horses if likely as heavy, had no tusks. A baby,' she supposed. A woman with pale yellow hair was scratching that one' behind the ear with a heavy, hooked goad. (Template:Foh)


Costumes

Timeline

Before its first appearance in the series little is known about where the show has been except that it was in Illian around the time the Hunt of the Horn was called. (Template:Foh) Elayne, Nynaeve, Thom and Juilin first encounter the show outside a town called Sienda in Amadicia. (Template:Foh)


Miscellaneous

Galad detests menageries as he thinks caging animals is cruel (Template:Foh)